Rare Books

Instructions on needle-work and knitting, : as derived from the practice of the Central School, Baldwin's Gardens, Gray's Inn Lane, London

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Description: The nine miniature mounted cloth samples of needlework and knitting consist of: a blue printed cotton pinafore; a linen shift-sleeve; a fine lawn infant's shirt; a fine cotton gentleman's shirt; a frilled and tucked baby's bonnet; a long woollen undergarment trimmed with silk; a darning sampler; a cross-stitch alphabet sampler in red thread; and a cream worsted stocking. The pages on which samples have been attached are included in the pagination. "List of the prices of work done by the girls"--page 26.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1829
Call number: 642323
Provenance: Purchased from Maggs Bros. Ltd., June 2024. Inscription on free endpaper at beginning: Gift of the Bishop of Quebec Js. Ste. to Miss Yonge 18th May, 1835, Gt. House, Toronto, Canada. Sold at Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood. Antiquarian Book Sale, December 5, 2023, lot 633.