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Bibliography of Sampler Books

Not listed are the many excellent articles appearing in both stitchery and antique periodicals.  These are just the books I have around the house and not a definitive list of sampler books by any means.

Bolton, Ethel Stanwood and Eva Johnston Coe, American Samplers,  Dover Publications, 1973.
Christie, Grace (Mrs. Archibald), Samplers and Stitches, Batsford  1934 (a modern reprint available)
Clabburn, Pamela, Samplers, Shire Album 30 1997
Colby, Averil, Samplers, Batsford 1987
Crawford, Heather M., Needlework Samplers of Northern Ireland, Allingham Publishing, 1989.
Don, Sarah, Traditional Samplers, Viking, 1986
Edmonds, Mary Jaene, Samplers & Samplermakers, Rizzoli, 1991
Embroiderers' Guild, Making Samplers, David & Charles 1993
Fawdry, Marguerite and Deborah Brown, Book of Samplers, The,  Lutterworth Press, 1980.
Gehret, Ellen J., This is the Way I Pass My Time, Pennsylvania  German Society, 1985.
Gierl, Irmgard, Sampler Book, The, A&C Black/Lark Books, 1988
Greenoff, Jane, Sampler Workbook, The, Charles Letts, 1992.
Hersh, Tandy and Charles, Samplers of the Pennsylvania Germans, Pennsylvania German Society 1991.
Huish, Marcus B., Samplers and Tapestry Embroideries, Batsford  1913, 1990
Humphrey, Carol, Samplers, Cambridge University Press, 1997
Hunt, Penelope Carew and Jean Morrison, English Sampler Motifs, Wiltshire Folk Life Society, 1990
Jarrett, Joy and Rebecca Jarrett Scott, Samplers, A School Room Exercise, Witney Antiques, 1994
Jones, Mary Eirwen, British Samplers, Pen-In Hand, 1948.
Just Cross Stitch, The Sampler Collection, Symbol of Excellence 1989
Krueger, Glee, A Gallery of American Samplers, Bonanza Books, 1984
Mathieson, Yvonne, Simple Samplers, Batsford 1991
Mayor, Susan and Diana Fowle, Samplers, Studio Editions 1995
Modes & Travaux, Sampler of Alphabets, A, Sterling Publishing,  1987
Perna, Sharon, Treasury of Cross-Stitch Samplers,  Sterling Publishing, 1987
Rankin, Chris Splendid Samplers to Cross-stitch, Sterling  Publishing 1996
Ring, Betty, Girlhood Embroidery, Alfred A. Knopf 1993
Ryan, Patricia and Allen D. Bragdon, Historic Samplers, Little, Brown & Co. 1992
Sebba, Anne, Samplers, Thames & Hudson, 1979

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