QUILTS Their Story and How to Make Them by Webster, Marie D - 1943

NY: Tudor Publishing. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1943. Reprint. Hardcover. Very minokr wear, minor soil, on the sound binding. Front endpapers are a litle tanned due to a newspaper clipping. Back endpapers are a little age-darkened. Two pages were improperly trimed by the binder, leaving a small amount of the paper extending beyong the fore edge. There are several b/w photo sections; most are clean, but a number, especially the color photos, have very minor foxing, with matching foxing on the the pages which face the section. Otherwise Contents are clean and unworn, with no writing or other entries in the text. No DJ. ; This is a sturdy, hardcover 1943 reprint of the original 1915 book, not a recent printondemand. 8-3/4" Tall, XVIII . Off-white textured cloth binding, dark blue lettering in light blue spine and front cover decorations. HOUSEHOLD CRAFTS. "Although exposed for a full century to the competition of machinery, under the depressing influence of which most of the fireside crafts have all but vanished, the making of quilts as a home industry has never languished. To raise in popular esteem these most worthy products of home industry, to add to the appreciation of their history and traditions, to give added interest to the hours of labor which their construction involves, to present a few of the old masterpieces to the quilters of to-day; such is the purpose of this book of quilts. " 14 pages of full-color photos of quilts. 64 pages of b/w photos of quilts. 8 pages of quilt names, listed alphabetically. .