Needle-Craft: Artistic and Practical (Metropolitan Art Series)

New York: Butterick Publishing Company, (1890). Second, Revised Edition. 277 pp + [11] pp. of elaborate adverts. Original olive green pictorial cloth, stamped with gilt and brown. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of black & white figures. Good indeed. Lightly soiled covers, moderately rubbed at extremities. Previous ownership signature to front flyleaf; moderate browning to margins of text. Binding square and tight, text otherwise unmarked.

An attractive and very serviceable copy of this Victorian production. 'So delicate with her needle.' --Shakespeare. 'The bright little needle -- the swift-flying needle, | The needle directed by beauty and art.' --Samuel Woodworth.

Price: $50.00