An Introduction to the Art of Basket-Making

by Thomas Okey

1932. No Edition Remarks. 158 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Contains black and white illustrations. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Noticeable cracking to gutters. Binding is weakened. Thumb-marking present. Boards have noticeable edge wear with corner bumping and rubbing to surfaces. Liquid spotting to boards.

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1932

About the author

Thomas Okey (1852 – 1935) was a British expert on basket weaving, a translator of Italian, and a writer on art and the topography of architecture and art works in Italy and France.

In 1919, he became the first Serena Professor of Italian at the University of Cambridge. Okey was a hereditary basket maker from a poor East End of London family,