"This Handbook, treating of the Industrial Arts of Nwoay and Sweden before the conversion of those countries to Christianity, has been prepared, at the request of the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education, by Dr. Hans Hildebrand as a companiion volume to that on the Industrial Arts of Denmark during the same period by Chamerlain Worsaae."--opposite title page.

Classic of scholarly research explores origins of Celtic art in Britain, Ireland, and Europe. Illustrated with 44 plates of photographs and line drawings of artifacts from a variety of sites, this study traces Celtic art in the Bronze and early Iron Ages, as well as Celtic art of the Christian period.