Plain & Fancy: American Women and Their Needlework, 1700-1850
by Susan Burrows Swan
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- As New/As New
- ISBN 10
- 003015121X
- ISBN 13
- 9780030151217
- Seller
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Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Item Price
A$84.23A$75.81
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About This Item
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. As New copy in like dustwrapper. First printing with full number line, signed and dated by the author to front endpaper. Completely crisp, intact and unmarked except for previous owner's name and address written in. 240 pages with Notes, Glossary, Suggested Readings and Index. Illustrated with the special needlework collection from the Winterthur Museum in Delaware. Black-and-white and color photographs. Instructions and diagrams. Green endpapers. Plain & Fancy traces the social history of women and the evolution of stitchery trends and practices from 1700 to 1850. More than 150 photographs from the renowned collection of the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum in Delaware, illustrate plain and fancy sewing - the simple but essential household work and the elaborate, ornamental examples.
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- Bookseller
- Modern First Editions Boston (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001767
- Title
- Plain & Fancy: American Women and Their Needlework, 1700-1850
- Author
- Susan Burrows Swan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 003015121X
- ISBN 13
- 9780030151217
- Publisher
- Holt, Rinehart and Winston
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1977
- Pages
- 240
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