Volume 1 of Elisa Ricci's history of Italian lace, published in English by William Heinemann in 1913. It traces needlework and lace from early openwork linen through lacis (modano), drawn-thread work, buratto, reticello and punto in aria (including Venice and Burano point), with a section on ivory stitch and macramé. The volume is heavily illustrated with numbered photographs of museum and private-collection pieces, with captions giving date, technique and owner, and it also covers old pattern books such as Vecellio, Parasole and Ostaus. It includes an introduction, an appendix with plates and a list of illustrations.

Volume 2 of Elisa Ricci's study of Italian lace, covering the history of Italian bobbin lace and its regional centres, illustrated with several hundred numbered plates. The text opens with an introduction on the origins of bobbin lace, bobbins and pins, and early pattern books such as Le Pompe, then treats Venice, Genoa, Milan and the Abruzzi (Aquila, Pescocostanzo, Gessopalena, Offida) in turn. Each region has a text section followed by plates of edgings, insertions, fringes and collars, with captions giving date, design source and collection. Paintings showing lace are also reproduced, and there is a list of illustrations.

A 1908 illustrated book on antique lace by Mrs. John Hungerford Pollen, with a preface by Alan Cole. It reproduces specimens from her own collection in about 120 full-page photographic plates, many at actual size or showing enlarged stitches. The text includes an introduction, a glossary of lace terms, and sections on needle-point lace (lacis, tela tirata, reticello, punto in aria, rose-point, Alençon, Argentan) and bobbin-made lace (Genoese, Flemish, Brussels, Valenciennes, Honiton and others). Plate captions give dimensions, country and date for each piece, from Italian 14th-century drawn work to 18th-century French, Flemish, Spanish and English lace.