Author: Marguerite Fawdry; Deborah Brown
Title: The Book of Samplers
Description: London, Lutterworth Press, 1980. First edition. Cloth. This lovely first edition, first impression of a practical and historical survey of samplers filled with illustrations of samplers throughout time, with the original clipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of the work.Filled with more than 150 monochrome and colour vignette illustrations of samplers throughout time, exhibiting a variety of motifs, stitches, and other embroidery techniques, in addition to just over one hundred diagrams.With the original clipped dust wrapper.This is a handsome copy of The Book of Samplers, a practical and historical survey of samplers across the Western world. The work moves from Renaissance Europe through to the twentieth century, examining the shifting characteristics of samplers throughout time whilst also providing invaluable guides so that the modern reader may recreate some of the intricate needlework it showcases for themselves. In the original publishers binding and with the original clipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent with just some bumping to the head and tail of the spine and the extremities. Wrapper is likewise excellent: just slightly edgeworn with one minor closed tear to its top edge, and with a small handling mark to its reverse. Internally. firmly bound with lovely, bright, clean pages throughout. Fine . Ill.: Photograph illustrations of several samplers; picture research by Bobbie Crosby, Philippa Lewis and Bettina Tayleur. Fine/Near Fine.

Keywords: Samplers Needlework Embroidery Art History Needlework Photograph illustrations of several samplers; picture research by Bobbie Crosby, Philippa Lewis and Bettina Tayleur.


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