Lot 245
  • 245

A group of miscellaneous volumes of literature about English, European and Eastern needlework and textiles

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 USD
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Approximately 79 vols.  Including Marcus B. Huish, Samplers and Tapestry Embroideries (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1913); Jean-Michel Tuscherer, The Fabrics of Mulhouse & Alsace 1750–1800 (Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis Publishers, 1969); Cyril G.E. Bunt and Ernest A. Rose, Two Centuries of English Chintz 1750–1790 (Leigh-on-Sea, England: F. Lewis Publishers, 1957); Henri Clouzot and Frances Morris, Painted and Printed Fabrics (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1927); and Lanto Synge, Antique Needlework (Poole, Dorset: Blandford Press, 1982).

Also including:



Mary Alexander, Needlework (Guildford, England:  Guildford Museum, 1981)



Lady M. Alford, Needlework as Art, (Yorkshire: EP Publishing, 1975)



Thomasina Beck, Embroidered Gardens (New York: The Viking Press, 1979)



Benaki Museum, Epirus and Ionian Islands Embroideries, (Athens:  Benaki Museum, 1965)



Judith M. Bolingbroke, William and Mary Fabrics (Leigh-on-Sea:  F. Lewis, Publishers, 1969)



Judith M. Bolingbroke, Carolian Fabrics (Leigh-on-Sea:  F. Lewis, Publishers, 1969)



Bolton Metropolitan Borough, The Spinning Mule: An Account of the Life of it's [sic] inventor, 1753–1827 (Bolton:  Bolton Metropolitan Borough, Arts Department, n.d.)



Josette Bredif, Printed French Fabrics: Toiles de Jouy (New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1989)



Cyril G.E. Bunt and Ernest A. Rose, Two Centuries of English Chintz 1750--1950: As Exemplified by the Productions of Stead, McAlpin & Co. (Leigh-on-sea, England:  F. Lewis Publishers, 1957)



Marion Bussagli et al., Cotton and Silk Making in Manchu China (New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1980)



Marianne Carlano and Larry Salmon, French Textiles: From the Middle Ages through the Second Empire (Hartford, Conn.:  The Wadsworth Atheneum, 1985)



S.F.A. Caulfield and Blanche C. Saward, Encyclopedia of Victorian Needlework (Dictionary of Needlework) Vol. I (New York: Dover Publications, 1972)



S.F.A. Caulfield and Blanche C. Saward, Encyclopedia of Victorian Needlework (Dictionary of Needlework) Vol. II (New York: Dover Publications, 1972)



Adolph S. Cavallo, Needlework Alphabets and Designs (Washington, D.C.: Cooper-Hewitt Museum, 1979)



Henri Clouzot and Frances Morris, Painted and Printed Fabrics: The History of the Manufactory at Jouy and other Ateliers in France 1760–1815; and Notes on the History of Cotton Printing Especially in England and America (New York:  Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1927)



Collection of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum and the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design, Western European Embroidery (Washington, D.C.:  The Smithsonian Institution, 1978)



Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York and Rice University, Houston              Embroidery through the Ages (New York:  Cooper-Hewitt Museum, 1978)



Ed. by TRH Countess of Wilton, The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages; Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries (London: Henry Colburn, 1840)



Charles Germain de Saint-Aubin, Art of the Embroiderer (Los Angeles: Los Angeles Museum of Art, 1983)



George Wingfeld Digby, Elizabethan Embroidery (London: Faber and Faber, 1963)



Oliver Fairclough and Emmeline Leary, Textiles by William Morris and Morris & Co. 1861–1940 (London; Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, 1981)



Ada Wentworth Fitzwilliam and A.F. Morris Hands, Jacobean Embroidery: Its Forms and Fillings Including Late Tudor, (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1912) [facsimile]



Fitzwilliam Museum, English Samplers at the Fitzwilliam (Cambridge: Fitzwilliam Museum, 1984)



Norah Gillow, William Morris:  Designs and Patterns (New York: Crescent Books, 1988)



Cora Ginsburg and Donna Ghelerter, A Book of Flowers, Fruits, Beasts, Birds and Flies: Seventeenth-Century Patterns for Embroiderers (Austin, Texas:  Curious Works Press, 1995)



Mattiebelle Gittinger, Master Dyers to the World (Washington, D.C.: The Textile Museum, 1982)



Mary Glasgow, Blackwork (New York:  Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1976)



Therle Hughes, English Domestic Needlework: 1660–1860 (London:  Abbey Fine Arts, 1961)



Marcus B. Huish, Samplers and Tapestry Embroideries (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1913)



Marcus B. Huish, Samplers and Tapestry Embroideries (New York:  Dover Publications, 1970)



Carol Humphrey et al., Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks:  Samplers (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)



R.A. Inness, Non-European Looms: In the Collections at Bankfield Museum, Halifax (Halifax: Calderdale Museums, 1977)



International Exhibitions Foundation, Portugal and the East through Embroidery:  16th to 18th Century Coverlets from the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon (Washington, D.C.: International Exhibitions Foundation, 1981)



Mary Eirwen Jones, British Samplers (Oxford: Pen-in-Hand Publishing, 1948)



M. Jourdain, The History of English Secular Embroidery (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1910)



A.F. Kendrick, English Needlework (London:  Adam & Charles Black, 1967)



A.F. Kendrick, English Embroidery (London: B.T. Batsford, 1904?)



Donald  King, Samplers (London:  Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1960)



Cecil Lubell, Textile Collections of the World: Volume 1, United States and Canada (New York:  Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1976)



Cecil Lubell, Textile Collections of the World: Volume 2, United Kingdom and Ireland (New York:  Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1976)



Cecil Lubell, Textile Collections of the World: Volume 3, France (New York:  Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1977)



Cecil Lubell, Textile Collections of the World: Volume 3, France (New York:  Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1978)



E. Moiseyenko, Russian Embroidery: 17th--Early 20th Centuries, The Hermitage Collection (Leningrad: Khudozhnik Rsfsr Publishers, 1978)



Barbara J. Morris, The History of English Embroidery (London:  Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1954)



Barbara M. Morris, Victorian Embroidery (New York: Universe Books, 1962)



Museum for the Arts of Decoration of the Cooper Union, “Chronicle of the Museum for the Arts of Decoration of the Cooper Union” (October 11, 1949)



John L. Nevinson, Catalogue of English Domestic Embroidery (London:  His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1950)



Linda Parry, William Morris Textiles (New York:  The Viking Press, 1983)



Louisa F. Pesel & E.W. Newberry, A Book of Old Embroidery with Articles by A.F. Kendrick (Keeper of the Department of Textiles at the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1921)



Philadelphia Museum of Art, Bulletin LXXV (Fall 1979)



Molly G. Proctor, Victorian Canvas Work:  Berlin Wool Work (London: B.T. Batsford, 1986)



Nancy Andrews Reath and Eleanor B. Sachs, Persian Textiles and their Technique from the Sixth to the Eighteenth Centuries Including a System for General Textile Classification (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1937)



Preston Remington, English Domestic Needlework (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1945)



Larry Salmon, A Medieval Tapestry in Sharp Focus (Boston:  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1977)



Larry Salmon et al., From Fiber to Fine Art (Boston:  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1980)



Barbara Snook, Florentine Embroidery (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1967)



Maragaret Swain, The Needlework of Mary Queen of Scots (New York:  Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1970)



Maragret Swain, Historical Needlework: A Study of Influences in Scotland and Northern England (New York:  Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970)



Margaret Swan, Scottish Embroidery: Medieval to Modern (London: B.T. Batsford, 1986)



Lanto Synge, Antique Needlework (Poole, U.K.: Blandford Press, 1982)



James Trilling, Aegean Crossroads: Greek Island Embroideries in the Textile Museum (Washington, D.C.:  The Textile Museum, 1983)



Verna Trudel, Schweizer Heimbatbucher:  Schweizerische Leinenstickereien des Mittelalters und der Renaissance (Berne:  Verlag Paul Haupt Bern, 1954)



Jean-Michel Tuchscherer, The Fabrics of Mulhouse & Alsace 1801–1850 (Leigh-on-sea, England:  F. Lewis Publishers, 1972)



Max v. Boehn, Miniaturen and Silhouetten: Ein Kapitel aus Kulturgeschichte und Kunst (Munchen: BEI F. Bruckmann, 1917



Victoria & Albert and Royal Ontario Museums, Origins of Chintz (London:  Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1970)



Victoria & Albert Museums, Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of English Chintz: English Printed Furnishing Fabrics from their Origins until the Present Day (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1960)



Victoria and Albert Museum, A Picture Book of English Embroideries: Part II.  Stuart (London:  The Victoria and Albert Museum, 1928)



Victoria and Albert Museum, A Picture Book of English Embroideries: Part III.  Georgian (London:  The Victoria and Albert Museum, 1928)



Victoria and Albert Museum, English Printed Textiles: 1720–1836 (London:  Her Majesty's Sationery Office, 1960)



Victoria and Albert Museum, Flowers in English Embroidery (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1963)



Victoria and Albert Museum, English Chintz (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1967)



Victoria and Albert Museum, The Needle's Excellency:  A Travelling Exhibition (London:  Victoria and Albert Museum, 1973)



Victoria and Albert Museum, Patterns for Textiles (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1987)



Karin-M. Walton, Samplers: Catalogue of the Collection of Samplers in the City of Bristol Museum & Art Gallery  (Bristol: City of Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, 1983)



Patricia Wardle, Guide to English Embroidery (London:  Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1970)



Patricia Wardle, Guide to English Embroidery (London:  Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1981), two copies

Provenance

The Joan Stephens Collection, sold Sotheby’s, January 19, 1997, lot 2136 (part) and lot 2138 (part), lot 2143 (part)