xx, 271 pp. With 66 monochrome plates, 154 illustrations. 7½x5, original brown cloth with title and decoration in black. Reprint of the 1910 edition.

Ernest Batchelder (1875-1857) was director of the art department at Throop Polytechnic Institute in Pasadena, CA (later California Institute of Technology) before starting his hugely successful art-tile pottery in 1909. This volume intructs in general design principles with some reference to tile design.