Fancy Work for Pleasure and Profit: Embodying and Containing Instructions for Transferring Designs, Embroidery Stitches, Shading, Flat Embroidery, Church and Bullion Embroidery, Raised Embroidery, All Sorts and Designs of Dainty Trivles, Drawn Work, Knitting and Crocheting, with Suggestions
by Addie E. Heron
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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GAHANNA, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Thompson & Thomas, Chicago, IL.1905. Condition: Very Good+ No dust jacket. 496 pp. Text slight yellowing typical of age. Text block has brown tinted top edge and marbled fore edge. Illustrated throughout with over 350 woodcut illustrations and numerous color plates, including frontispiece. Second printing of this scarce and comprehensive work on embroidery, crochet, knitting, needlework, beading, and much more for women and homemaking. Published during the Victorian era, this book served as a guide in providing new, beautiful and inexpensive items for the home. Book was first published in conjunction with the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, and was dedicated to Mrs. Potter Palmer, its President Board of Lady Managers. Remarkable condition for its age.
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- Bookseller
- Select Tomes (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100192
- Title
- Fancy Work for Pleasure and Profit
- Author
- Addie E. Heron
- Format/Binding
- Embossed pictorial brown cloth, cover art silhouette illustration of woman sewing in white & red. Front hinge cracked. Corners
- Book Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- No dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Thompson & Thomas
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1905
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Crafts,
- Size
- 7 1/4 x 9
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About the Seller
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GAHANNA, Ohio
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I am making available selections from my collection of eclectic, historical and sometimes rare books. My collection includes historical novels, cookbooks, textbooks and children's books along with other ephemera.
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- New
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- Jacket
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- Text Block
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...