American Samplers by Bolton, Ethel Stanwood & Eva Johnston Coe - 1973

Pyne Press, 1973. Paperback. Good.

Pyne Press:, 1973. 416 pages, with 76 illustrations in b&w. "Needlework and embroidery were the primary forms of relaxation for most seventeenth century wormen, and almost everything was embroidered. "This book is based on over twenty-five hundred descriiptions of samplers, nearly four hundred pictures of samplers and examination of over 300 hundred actual samplers from the seventeenth and eighteenth century. Also, Registers fo seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth century samplers, an anthology of sampler verse from 1610 to 1830, a list of early schools and schoolmistresses, and a section on embroidered heraldry with register of embroidered arms, makes this book an invaluable, chronological history of the American sampler." FINE- SOFTCOVER. Soft Cover. Fine-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.