Crosby Bobbie (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. A collection of thirty-seven simple and authentic Shaker recipes for every type of dish from appetizers to desserts, including buttermilk rolls, beef stew woth dumplings, scones, and other dishes Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. Binding Tight Pages Clean Light Edge Wear. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 80pp. Extremities book & Dj lightly rubbed. Photos & index.

Glossy Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Oversized 80pp including index Full color photographs Previous owner's inscription on front facing page, otherwise book is AS NEW.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. First. 4to. White Illustrated board cover w v slight shelf wear. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. This lovely first edition, first impression of a practical and historical survey of samplers filled with illustrations of samplers throughout time, with the original clipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of the work.Filled with more than 150 monochrome and colour vignette illustrations of samplers throughout time, exhibiting a variety of motifs, stitches, and other embroidery techniques, in addition to just over one hundred diagrams.With the original clipped dust wrapper.This is a handsome copy of The Book of Samplers, a practical and historical survey of samplers across the Western world. The work moves from Renaissance Europe through to the twentieth century, examining the shifting characteristics of samplers throughout time whilst also providing invaluable guides so that the modern reader may recreate some of the intricate needlework it showcases for themselves. In the original publishers binding and with the original clipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent with just some bumping to the head and tail of the spine and the extremities. Wrapper is likewise excellent: just slightly edgeworn with one minor closed tear to its top edge, and with a small handling mark to its reverse. Internally. firmly bound with lovely, bright, clean pages throughout. Fine. Photograph illustrations of several samplers; picture research by Bobbie Crosby, Philippa Lewis and Bettina Tayleur. (illustrator). book.…