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                   THE
                 TAPESTRY
                   BOOK


                    BY

          HELEN CHURCHILL CANDEE

 AUTHOR OF "DECORATIVE STYLES AND PERIODS"


_WITH FOUR PLATES IN COLOUR AND NINETY-NINE
     ILLUSTRATIONS IN BLACK-AND-WHITE_


                 NEW YORK
        FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
                  MCMXII




  [Illustration: HERSE AND MERCURY

    Renaissance Brussels Tapestry, Italian Cartoon. W. de Pannemaker,
      weaver.

    Collection of George Blumenthal, Esq., New York]




_Copyright, 1912,
by_ FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY

_All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign
languages, including the Scandinavian_

_October, 1912_




                  TO
    TWO CERTAIN BYZANTINE MADONNAS
           AND THEIR OWNERS




AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT


Modesty so dominates the staff in art museums that I am requested not
to make mention of those officers who have helped me with friendly
courtesy and efficiency. To the officers and assistants at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago,
the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Print Department in the
Library of Congress in Washington, indebtedness is here publicly
acknowledged with the regret that I may not speak of individuals.
Photographs of tapestries are credited to Messrs. A. Giraudon, Paris;
J. Laurent, Madrid; Alinari, Florence; Wm. Baumgarten, and Albert
Herter, New York