Embroideries in Lady Lever Art Gallery by Xanthe Brooke

Beautiful book: Catalogue of Embroideries in the Lady Lever Art Gallery by Xanthe Brooke. First Edition, brand new, published in Great Britain, 1992, 4to, 305 pp. Profusely illustrated with more than 200 illustrations including 24 pages of color. "Combined with a detailed description of each of the embroideries and the method employed in its production is new and careful research into the printed pictorial design sources which provided the basis for many of the works. Through such research the hidden and intriguing significance of many of the stories depicted is unveiled, revealing much about the teenage embroideresses' education, socialization, activities and the attitudes to the religion and politics of the society in which they lived," says the blurb on the front flap of the dust jacket.