`Beautiful and practical, the books are visual summaries of the most sumptuous parts of the V&A collections` Royal Academy Magazine This attractive series reveals the V&A`s spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Each title in the series includes a free CD of high resolution images. Kimono displays some of the best Japanese textile patterns at the V&A, ranging over 200 years from the early nineteenth century. Kimono is also available in a collectors’ slipcase edition with Owen Jones, Novelty Patterns and Garden Florals.