Excerpt from Illustrated Catalogue, the Magnificent Benguiat Collection: Beautiful Velvets and Embroideries, Superb Cloth of Gold Brocades, Resplendent Brocatelles, Italian, Spanish, French, English XVI-XVIII Century, Thirty Magnificent Gothic and Renaissance Tapestries (Six Enriched With Gold and Silver) The fine Brocatelles and Damasks are in sufficient quantities either to cover the walls of rooms or to fit them with their entire curtains. Filet Lace, always so useful, is in abundance, and not only has a very quaint variance of animal patterns, but is in a fine state of preservation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.