ORIENTAL CARPETS, RUNNERS AND 

 RUGS, AND SOME JACQUARD RE- 

 PRODUCTIONS. 



By Sydney Humphries. 



Containing 24 full-page reproductions in colour of carpets, runners 

 and rugs, and 8 full-page illustrations in black and white. Demy 

 quarto, cloth, gilt top. Price 2 guineas net. 



Though carpets are perhaps the most familiar of the necessaries or adornments of 

 domestic life, they are hardly ever treated as a subject of literary interest. There are 

 thousands of books on pictures, but scarcely any books on carpets. This is strange, for 

 carpet-weaving and picture-painting are artistically close akin. Once this is realized, 

 literature of the carpet will probably have a vogue. The carpet-weaver, the connoisseur 

 in furnishing, the ordinary householder, the student of arts and crafts — ail thèse will be 

 astonished by what Mr. Humphries has to tell and to suggest. The neglected subject 

 becomes fascinating at the touch of his learned and expert enthusiasm. The illustrations 

 in colour are a most important feature of the book, and the sabjects reproduced have 

 been specially selected for their merits of design and colouring, also as typical spécimens 

 of artistic objects passing the bounds of mere utility. 



The size of the volume (12x8^ inches), which allows of ample margins for both plates 

 and text, and the characteristic binding designed by the author, make the volume to ail 

 intents and purposes an Edition de Luxe. 



THE MOTOR ROUTES OF FRANCE : 



TO THE CHÂTEAUX OF TOURAINE, BIARRITZ, 

 THE PYRENEES, THE RIVIERA, AND THE 

 RHONE VALLEY. 



By Gordon Home. 



Containing 16 full-page illustrations in colour, 16 in black and white, 

 and 63 maps and plans. 



Large crown 8vo. Cloth, Price 5s. net. 



Leather, Price 7s. 6d. net. 



This is the second volume of a séries of Motor Route Books which has been produced 

 to meet the need so often felt by motorists for a book which shall describe carefully 

 thought-out routes through Great Britain and parts of the Continent. The Southern 

 Section of Great Britain has already been published, and met with much acceptance. This 

 volume deals with a section of France. The plan of the book is to give essential facts in 

 tabulated form at the commencement of each section of the route described, under the 

 headings — 



(i) Notes for Drivers ; (2) Distances along the Road ; 



(3) Interesting Objects (a) on the Road, {b) ofï the Road. 



Specially prepared maps of each portion of the route accompany the text ; in thèse 

 can be seen at a glance everything that the motorist is likely to want to know. 



The text acts as a full source of information in regard to ail that may help to make 

 the road and ail the places passed through of interest. It is absolutely up to date, the 

 author having recently travelled very carefully over every mile of the route. 



PUBLISHED BY A. AND G. BLACK . SOHO SQUARE . . LONDON . W. 



