America's Glorious Quilts
NY: Park Lane, 1987. Hardcover. Red cloth, color DJ. 320 pp. Profuse color plates. More
NY: Park Lane, 1987. Hardcover. Red cloth, color DJ. 320 pp. Profuse color plates. More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1929. Hardcover. Grey cloth, red ill. DJ. 202 pp. Color frontispiece, 96 bw ills., 100 bw figs. Complete history of American quilts. Includes complete directions for making pieced and appliqued quilts. More
Softcover. White ill. stapled wraps. Unpaginated. 40 bw ills. Introductory essay by Mary Antoine de Julio. Comprised mostly of annotated illustrations. More
Salt Lake City, Utah: Salt Lake Art Center, 1981. Softcover. Green & color illus. wraps, 48 pp., color illus. Issued in conjunction with a 1981 exhibition of these quilts made in Utah. The catalogue lists 20 quilts, and all but one are pictured here in full color. Includes a bibliography..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1985. Softcover. Reddish boards, green ill. DJ. viii, 164 pp. 107 bw ills. Features 19th-century American quilts made for children. More
Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1996. Hardcover. Red cloth, pale yellow ill. DJ. xviii, 396 pp. Extensive survey of African-American quiltmakers. More
Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1996. Hardcover. Red cloth, pale yellow ill. DJ. xviii, 396 pp.; richly illustrated primarily in color. Extensive survey of African-American quiltmakers. More
NY: Adams & Bishop, 1877. Grey gilt clot. 158 pp. numerous line engravings. Really a nice copy, except that the cover cloth is slightly warped, and the first few leaves show evidence of being too close to an oil lamp at one time. One page with loss of text at..... More
Mill Valley: American Quilt Study Group. Softcover. Blue wraps. 171 pp. Numerous bw ills. More
Mill Valley, California: American Quilt Study Group, 1986. Softcover. Turquoise wraps with black lettering. 168 pp. with occasional bw illus. Includes 10 different articles/papers about quilts/textiles of Kent County in Maryland, Central Pennsylvania, the Amish, Kentucky, Hawaii, Missouri, South Carolina, Indonesia, and more. More
Mill Valley, California: American Quilt Study Group, 1984. Softcover. Blue wraps. 153 pp. Numerous bw illus. Contains ten papers by various authors, including Applique Button Blankets in Northwest Coast Indian Culture, Documenting Kentucky's Quilts, Recollections of Childhood Recorded in a Tennessee Quilt, and more. More
Nantucket, Mass. Peter Foulger Museum, 1979. Softcover. Tan paper wraps with bw illustration and black lettering; unpaginated with 20 pp. and 15 bw illustrations. A catalogue of 71 items on exhibit from July 9 to September 3, 1979; with an introduction by Gilbert. More
Baltimore, Maryland: Maryland Historical Society, 1994. Softcover. Peach wraps. vii, 125 pp. 56 bw, numerous color plates. "Ninettenth-century American quilts are known the world over for their inventiveness and beauty; most highly regarded of all are the exquisite album quilts made in the Baltimore, Maryland vicinity between about 1845 and..... More
Baldwin City, Kansas: Betty J. Hagerman, 1979. Softcover. Blue paper wraps, 80 pp., many line drawings, one color plate. Images of the Sunbonnet Children -- Sunbonnet Sue and Overall Bill, the rural kids whose hats are so big they obscure their faces -- are motifs found in folk art and..... More
West Chester, Pennsylvania: The Chester County Historical Society, 1976. Softcover. Patterned stapled wraps. 28 pp. 21 bw plates. Brief introduction. Comprised mostly of annotated plates. Catalogue from the exhibition of June to October 1976, More
1990. Softcover. Yellow stapled wraps. 20 pp. Numerous bw plates. More
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: G. G. Evans, 1859. Hardcover. Dark brown cloth over boards; 240 pp.; 262 bw illustrations. An in-depth examination of techniques and patterns for all types of needlework, compiled from various sources; This is NOT a print-on-demand copy. More
NY: Pantheon Books, 1982. Softcover. Color wraps. 79 pp. 62 color & bw plates. Introduction and quilt commentaries by Jonathan Holstein, historical text by John Finley, and design by Lazin & Katalan. Includes bibliographical references (page 74). More
San Francisco, California: American Quilt Study Group, 1989. Softcover. Color illus. wraps. 202 pp. Numerous bw illus. Contains ten papers, including "The Land of Cotton: Quiltmaking by African-American Women in Three Southern States" by Bets Ramsey, "Quilting: Its Absence in Australia" by Margaret Rolfe, "Diaries of New England Quilters Before..... More
San Francisco, California: American Quilt Study Group, 1990. Softcover. Color illus. wraps with black lettering on yellow ochre spine. 167 pp. Numerous bw illus. Contains ten papers, including Nebraska Quiltmakers; Mourning Quilts in America; Nineteenth-Century Trends; and more. More
New York: Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, 1993. Softcover. White wraps, color illustrated, purple and red lettering, xiv, 240 pp, illustrated in bw throughout. Chapters on The History and The Craft. Also includes sources of supplies and an index. More
Old Saybrook, Connecticut: Stephen and Carol Huber, 1998. Softcover. Color pictorial wraps; Spiralbound; Unpaginated, approx. 110 pp.; 57 color illus. 1999 calendar; Annotations for each sampler include information on scene/text depicted, where and when it's from, etc.; Beautiful illustrations. More
London: Octopus Pub. Group, 2002. Hardcover. Green boards with gilt lettering on spine, illustrated dj, 176 pp, richly illustrated in color. Schoolgirl samplers and pictorial needlework are among the most sought-after textile collectables. This informative and colourful volume serves as a guide to developing an appraiser's eye and a connoisseur's..... More
Williamsburg, Virginia: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1997. Softcover. Pink pictorial wraps; 117 pp.; 131 pp.; bw and color figures. prepared in conjunction with the exhibit Virginia samplers: young ladies and their needle wisdom, October 31, 1997, to September 8, 1998, at the DeWitt Wallace Gallery, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg..... More
Portsmouth, NH: Published for the Portsmouth Marine Society by P.E. Randall, 1996. Softcover. Green glossy color-illustrated glued wraps. xviii, 155 pp. 22 bw pictures and images, 18 full color reproductions. Instruction in needlework played an important role in the education of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, females well into the nineteenth century..... More