Excerpt from the jacket:
"The selection in this volume includes both the best and the most typical in Art Nouveau. The 199 illustriations are mostly graphic arts material: book covers, posters, and advertisements, title pages and end pages, book plates, menus, Christmas cards, decorative alphabets, engraved and decorated poems, and a variety of designs and patterns. The artists include Walter Crane, Aubrey Beardsley, Will Bradley, A. A. Turbayne, Enid Jackson, R. Anning Bell, R. M. Bradley, Jessie King, Mabel Syrett, J. D. Batten , and many others. Although the book is intended primarily to be a file for commercial artists and designers, it serves the less specialized reader admirably as a survey of the various graphic styles of Art Nouveau."