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A Sampler of Alphabets

from Modes & Travaux

ISBN: 0806965088

Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.

1987

HC w/ dust jacket   120 pp.

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Used (Very Good)

Item #1630-000-2787

$8.00


American Samplers

by Ethel Stanwood Bolton & Eva Johnston Coe
ISBN: 051722643X

Weathervane Books

1973

HC w/ dust jacket   416 pp.

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Used (Like New/Very Good - one place on upper front right corner where coating is torn from sticker removal, but dj now protected by Brodart cover)

Item #1630-000-0676

$40.00  $20.00


American Samplers

by Ethel Stanwood Bolton & Eva Johnston Coe

ISBN: 0486254186

Dover Publications, Inc.

1973

SC   416 pp.

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Used (Very Good)

Item #1630-000-0746

$8.00


British Samplers

by Mary Eirwen Jones

ISBN: 0713456345

B. T. Batsford Ltd.

1988

SC   85 pp.

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Item #1630-000-0672

$18.00  $9.00


Common Thread/Common Ground: A Collection of Essays on Early Samplers and Historic Needlework

edited by Marsha Van Valin

ISBN: 1964476452

The Scarlet Letter

2001

SC   80 pp.

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Item #1630-016-0670

$33.00  $20.00


The Evolution Of Samplers...Embroidery and Sampler Time Line...

by Eileen Bennett

ISBN: None

Self-published

2001

Spiral-bound SC   54 pp.

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Used (Very Good - Discolored spots on upper right corner of cover from sticker removal)

Item #1630-000-2652

$14.00


Girlhood Embroidery: American Samplers & Pictorial Needlework 1650 ~ 1850

by Betty Ring

ISBN: 0394550099

Alfred A. Knopf

1993

2 HC in slipcase   583 pp.

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Item #1630-000-1775

$300.00


In Female Worth and Elegance: Sampler and Needlework Students and Teachers in Portsmouth, New Hampshire 1741 - 1840

by John F. LaBranche & Rita F. Conant

ISBN: 9780915819379

The Portsmouth Marine Society

2009

SC   155 pp.

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Item #1630-000-1584

$20.00


Miller's Samplers: How To Compare & Value

by Stephen & Carol Huber

ISBN: 1840005416

Octopus Publishing Group Ltd.

2002

HC w/ dust jacket   176 pp.

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Used (Like New/Like New - Light bumping to both lower corners)

Item #1630-000-0666S

$12.00  $6.00


Ohio Is My Dwelling Place: schoolgirl embroideries 1800 - 1850

by Sue Studebaker

ISBN: 0821414526

Ohio University Press

2002

HC w/ dust jacket   310 pp.

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Used (Like New/Very Good)

Item #1630-000-1777

$52.00


Samplers

by Averil Colby

ISBN: 0713446463

B. T. Batsford Ltd.

1984

HC w/ dust jacket   266 pp.

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Used (Very Good/Very Good - PO bookplate neatly inside front cover)

Item #1630-000-1778

$65.00


Samplers

by Shozo Kato

ISBN: 4529024695

Nihon Vogue

1994

SC w/ dust jacket   56 pp.   (Japanese text)

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Item #1630-004-0593

$35.00  $21.00


Samplers

by Susan Mayor & Diana Fowle
ISBN: 1559211547

Studio Editions Ltd.

1996

SC   62 pp.

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Used (Very Good)

Item #1630-000-0590S

$3.00


Samplers

by Rebecca Scott

ISBN: 9780747807063

Shire Publications

2010

SC   128 pp.

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Item #1630-004-2440

$20.00


Samplers and Tapestry Embroideries

by Marcus Huish
ISBN: 0486220702

Dover Publications, Inc.

1970

SC   176 pp.

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Used (Very Good - small name written on ffep)

Item #1630-000-0665S

SOLD


Samplers For Today

by Cecile Dreesmann

ISBN: 0442221789

Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

1972

HC w/ dust jacket   160 pp.

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Item #1630-000-2205

$12.00


Samplers of the Pennsylvania Germans

by Tandy and Charles Hersh
ISBN: 0911122583

The Pennsylvania German Society

1991

HC w/ dust jacket   303 pp.

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Used (Very Good/Very Good)

Item #1630-000-0588

$260.00  $200.00


Samplers selected and described by Leigh Ashton

ISBN: None

The Medici Society

1926

HC w/ dust jacket   14 pp. + 78 plates

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Used (Very Good+/Very Good+ - New mylar cover)

Item #1630-000-2846

$260.00


Samplers & Samplermakers: An American Schoolgirl Art 1700 - 1850

by Mary Jaene Edmonds
ISBN: 0847813967

Rizzoli

1991

HC w/ dust jacket   168 pp.

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Item #1630-000-0663

$60.00  $30.00


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A Maryland Sampling: Girlhood Embroidery 1738 - 1860

by Gloria Seaman Allen

ISBN: 9780938420989

Maryland Historical Society

2007

HC w/ dust jacket   384 pp.

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A Stitch In Rhyme: An Examination of Verse Embroidered on Needlework Samplers in England and America between 1647 and 1857

by Marsha Van Valin

ISBN: 0964476436

The Scarlet Letter

1999

SC   86 pp.

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Abecedaires Brodes

by Catherine Pouchelon

ISBN: 2859173358

Les Editions de L'Amateur

2001

HC w/ dust jacket   187 pp.   (French text)

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British Samplers: A Concise History

by Jane Toller

ISBN: 0850333830

Phillimore & Co. Ltd.

1980

SC   63 pp.

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The fifth of Joan Edwards' Small Books on the history of Embroidery: Sampler Making 1540 - 1940

by Joan Edwards

ISBN: 0907287042

Bayford Books

1983

SC   20 pp.

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From The Archives...: A collection of 18 out-of-print articles on old Embroideries and Samplers Dating from 1925 to present

compiled by Eileen Bennett

ISBN: None

Self-Published

2002

Spiral-bound SC   55 pp.

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Jane Bostocke...the rest of the story

by Eileen Bennett

ISBN: None

Self-Published

2004

Spiral-bound SC   54 pp.

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Navneduker

by Anne Kjellburg

ISBN: 8270030562

C. Huitfeldt Forlag

1985

SC   87 pp.   (Dutch text)

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New England Samplers to 1840

by Glee Krueger

ISBN: None

Old Sturbridge Village

1978

SC   227 pp.

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Ohio Is My Dwelling Place: schoolgirl embroideries 1800 - 1850

by Sue Studebaker

ISBN: 0821414534

Ohio University Press

2002

SC  310 pp.

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Samplers

by Pamela Clabburn
ISBN: 074780365X

Shire Publications Ltd.

2002

SC   40 pp.

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Samplers: Five Centuries of a Gentle Craft

by Anne Sebba

ISBN: 0500233004

Thames and Hudson

1979

HC w/ dust jacket   160 pp.

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Tokens of Love: The Provenance, Purposes and Constituents of English Needlework Samplers. Explaining samplers of Poor Girls, and their life in Poor and Orphan Schools.

by Vivian Crellin

ISBN: 0955467209

The Sampler Guild

2006

HC w/ dust jacket   139 pp.

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