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Quarter Century Edition of the Paradise of Childhood. A Practical Guide to Kindergartners
Second printing of the "Quarter Century Edition" issued by Milton Bradley in 1896, after their first American edition in 1869. This edition expanded to include a biography of Froebel and his legacy in education. Near Fine with minor soil and sunning to boards, gilt cover...
Home Economics class portfolio, household accounting and textiles
Two-ring flexible fiberboard covers with cloth-lined spine, 9 x 11 inches. Many of the outer pages are torn at the hole punches, but still sit neatly in place. Around 100 total leaves, including 5 panels of paper weaving and 4 mounted sewing examples. The book...
Flower Sewing Cards (#4227)
Identified in the 1907 catalog as No. 4227, to contain 12 cards. Patterned paper with chromolithograph label; paper chipped from the lower left corner of the base, otherwise Very Good+. This box has an extra four cards—16 total; 15 are complete and the last is...
The Lady's Album of Fancy Work; Consisting of novel, elegant and useful designs in knitting, netting, crochet and embroidery with clear and explicit directions for working the patterns.
First edition. Pictorial cloth-backed boards, 8vo, [46], 8pp. All edges gilt. Monochrome plates printed in red, blue, green and sepia inks by Stevens & Co.Bound by Bone & Son, London, with beautiful glazed lilac endpapers and autograph bookplate of Mrs. Baddeley. 40 plates on twenty...
Kindergarten Gems For the Little Tots (#4244)
10x13 box with intructions printed under lid; contains 3 color litho plates labeled A-1 through A-3, one “Toy Knitter” with needle, 5 worsteds, 6 large perforated cards (1 sewn) and 6 small sewing cards (4 sewn). Box with a variety of repairs from electrical tape...
Advertising cloth measuring tape
60-inch oilcloth measuring tape with stitched edges and a little rusty ol' safety pin advertising J. G. Leinbach Co. in Reading, Pennsylvania.
Collection of 20 mounted apparel fabric swatches, 1938-1942
Mounted on large index cards, 5 x 8 inches. The cards are housed in a custom wraparound folder, set in mylar sleeves open at the foredge. Two of the cards are in Fair condition, showing heavier soil and one with a tear at the bottom...
Needle book with real photo cover and printed spine repair
Padded leatherette hardcover, 24mo (5.5 x 3.5 inches) with a photograph laminated to the cover, spine covered with an illustrated strip from a Red Cross "Buy Christmas Seals, Fight Tuberculosis" print campaign. The real photograph portrait of the girl has a touch of hand coloring...
Principles and Practice of Textile Printing
Maroon cloth hardcover 8vo, 1064pp. 3 inches thick! 19 numbered plates in addition to copious in-text illustrations and diagrams; over 200 mounted swatches of various patterns and dyeing techniques on different fabrics and textures. Small repaired tears in the cloth at both spine ends, as...
Unspecified book of alphabets
Unidentified publication in supplied wraps with repaired tears throughout the volume. Originally found in Portugal, estimated to be ca. 1920-40s. 28 pages of monogram letters and designs for embroidery. A few full names include Siri, Greta, Rut, Hedvig. A charming little mystery reflecting the wide...