As was mentioned in the Foreword, it would manifestly be impossible in a volume of this size fully to illustrate British commercial furniture and textiles. Inexpensive pieces have already been shown, and much craftsman furniture will appear later on. The types appropriate to Modern decoration are well indicated in this section and also by the work of the English interior architects and craftsman illustrated: these should be followed as closely as may be in purchasing from dealers.

Specially designed interiors and furniture naturally belong in the section on "The Highest Development of Modern Furnishing" and they are there particularly referred to, but they are so illuminating and will prove so helpful in suggestion that some of these illustrations are placed elsewhere for this reason as well as to afford a more even distribution of the colour-plates throughout the volume.