Excerpt from The Romance of the Lace Pillow: Being the History of Lace-Making, in Bucks, Beds, Northants and Neighbouring, Counties, Together With Some Account of the Lace Industries of Devon and Ireland Mr. William Day, Bath; Miss K. Dickinson, St. Albans; Mrs. J. T. Dickinson, Orton Longueville, near Peterborough Miss Margaret Dickson, Reading; Mrs. Dowdy, N. Crawley; Mrs. E. S. Druce, Woking; Miss Alice Dryden (mrs. Marcon), Newbury; Mrs. Mabel Dunkley, Torrington Square, w.c. 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.