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Guide to needlework, knitting and crochet : containing designs and directions for all kinds of

Published / Created:
September 29, 1886.
Call Number:
1978 +S3 1
Image Count:
16
Alternative Title:
Guide to needlework and Fancy work
Description:
BEIN 1978 +S3 1: No. 14 of 55 works bound together with binder's title: Leisure hour library., Caption title., Text in three columns., and Advertising matter on p. 16.
Publisher:
F.M. Lupton, publisher, 3 Park Place, New York
Subject (Topic):
Fancy work, Knitting, Crocheting, Lace and lace making, and Embroidery
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Guide to needlework, knitting and crochet : containing designs and directions for all kinds of fancy needlework, artistic embroidery, lace work, knitting, tatting, crochet and net work

2.
The happy mother [graphic]

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[27 February 1787]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3588 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 2, page 36. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A lady working at her embroidery turns to watch a child holding a bird, an oval composition."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: The tender mother., and Mounted on page 36 in volume 2 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 27th, 1787, by S. Vivares, Great Newport Street
Subject (Topic):
Mothers, Embroidery, Children, and Birds
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The happy mother [graphic]

3.
[Commonplace book]

Creator:
Feilding (Fielding) family
Published / Created:
[ca. 1684]
Call Number:
Osborn b226
Image Count:
10
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of a collection of about 73 entries, including prayers, poems on primarily romantic subjects, and culinary and medicinal recipes for such items as "orange water the Countess of Desmonds way"; black pudding; "to make hair black"; and "for Hot Sore Eyes." Other include one titled "upon my Lady Desmonds Reproaching of me Rongfully" and another addressed to "Aminta" which asks her to "think on thy Feildings dying grones." The volume also includes genealogical information on members of the Feilding family born between 1637 and 1651.
Description:
Binding: covers and spine embroidered in flower pattern with metal and fabric threads. and For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Religious life and customs--17th century and Great Britain--Social life and customs--17th century
Subject (Name):
Feilding (Fielding) family
Subject (Topic):
Cooking, Elegiac poetry, English, Embroidery, English poetry--17th century, Medicine, Popular, Medicine--15th-18th cent, Meditations (Religious), Religious poetry, English, Sentimentalism in literature, and Women authors
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book]