Thin-paper tracings. Page mounted on both sides of leaves. Some tracings. Pages are numbered 224-358, but numbers do not appear sequentially on every page. Page laid in;Pencil note on inside of front cover: tracings of over 400 designs. Circa 1880....
Handwritten note on inside of front cover gives names of dealers in Barmen, Germany and Paris (Lucas & Vorsteher, textile manufacturers, Wuppertal (Germany) and A. Porcher(?), rue d'Hauteville, Paris (France)). "Embroideries for night shirts."...