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Identifier: illuminatedbooko00ston (find matches)
Title: The illuminated book of needlework : comprising knitting, netting, crochet, and embroidery
Year: 1847 (1840s)
Authors: Stone, Elizabeth Owen, Henry, Mrs Wilton, Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton, Countess of, 1801-1858
Subjects: Needlework Tapestry
Publisher: London : Henry G. Bohn
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
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^liZc^b-e+Ji ^ii<=Wfi. THE ILLUMINATED BOOK OF NEEDLEWORK: COMPRISING KNITTING, NETTING, CROCHET, AND EMBROIDERY. BY MRS. HENRY OWEN, Of Upper Baker Street. PRECEDED BY A HISTORY OF NEEDLEWORK, INCLUDING AN ACCOUNT OF THE ANCIENT HISTORICAL TAPESTRIES. EDITED BY THE COUNTESS OF WILTON. LONDON: HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN MDCCCXLVII. TO HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN DOWAGER, THIS LITTLE WORK, INTENDED TO ILLUSTRATE THE HISTORY AND PROGRESS OF AN ART ENNOBLED BY HER MAJESTY^ PRACTICE, AND BY HER EXAMPLE RECOMMENDED TO THE WOMEN OF ENGLAND, is, BY HER MAJESTYS MOST GRACIOUS PERMISSION, INSCRIBED WITH THE UTMOST RESPECT,BY HER MAJESTYS MOST GRATEFUL AND MOST OBEDIENT SERVANT, THE AUTHORESS. PREFACE. If there be one mechanical art of more universalapplication than all others, and therefore of moreuniversal interest, it is that which is practised withthe Needle. From the stateliest denizen of theproudest palace, to the humblest dweller in thepoorest cottage, all moreilluminatedbooko00ston
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