The Illuminated Book of Embroidery, 1847

Cover of The Illuminated Book of Embroidery, London 1847. Cover of The Illuminated Book of Embroidery, London 1847.

The Illuminated Book of Embroidery was first published in 1847 and was bound together with the previously published The Art of Needlework (1840; now called A History of Needlework), which was published by Mary Margaret Egerton, Countess of Wilton, but authored by Mrs. Elizabeth Stone.

The new combined book, with chapters on knitting, netting, crochet and embroidery patterns, was published by Henry G. Bohn, London and compiled by Mrs. Henry Owen. The book elsewhere is also called The Illuminated Ladies' Book of Useful and Ornamental Needlework.

Source: EDWARDS, Joan (1976). 'A survey of English literature of embroidery, 1840-1940', The Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club, Vol. 76, pp. 3-20. Dowload here.

Digital source of illustration (retrieved 20 November 2016).

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