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RARE Alphabet and Monogram Books

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Embroidered Alphabets with Ribbon Embroidery by Di Van Niekerk
Embroidered Alphabets with Ribbon Embroidery by Di Van Niekerk
Di Van Niekerk is a very fine needlework teacher and author. She has made the areas of Ribbon Work and Stumpwork (often combined) her speciality.   Embroidered Alphabets is ou-oprint now and has gotten very expensive & hard to find.  I hate it that these excellent books go out-of-print so quickly. She is also the author of Cicely Mary Baker's Flower Faries in Ribbon Embroidery & Stumpwork, a really magical book as well as the wonderful Silk Roses book. This is her Embroidered Alphabets book a...
 
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4000 Alphabet & Letter Motifs w/ CD by Graham McCallum
4000 Alphabet & Letter Motifs w/ CD by Graham McCallum
I am often asked about books of lettering and monograms for stitchers. There are a few good ones out there but none as comprehensive as this one.  This is another of Graham Leslie McCallum's excellent sourcebooks containing 4000 Alphabets & Letters and including a CD with everything on it.  The book includes whole alphabets and elaborate initials (monograms) from Roman inscription to modern alphabets for graphic designers.  The book also has a visual explanation of the development of l...
 
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97 Needlepoint Alphabets by B. Borssuck
97 Needlepoint Alphabets by B. Borssuck
I am a fan of B. Borssuck books in general.  3 of my articles for Needlepoint Now magazine have been on B.'s books.  This is her excellent letters (and numbers, it is very hard to find stitchery books with numbers as well as letters in them).  The other big plus here is that this book is designed and charted for needlepoint.  Most are embroidery or cross-stitch and have to be slightly adapted for needlepoint. Each Alphabet or Number in this book is graphed full size, so the graphs can b...
 
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Bizarre and Ornamental Alphabets edited by Carol Grafton
Bizarre and Ornamental Alphabets edited by Carol Grafton
Carol Belanger Grafton is a familiar name, she has edited several other books of this kind. I stopped counting at 13 titles, there were more. I carry some of her's fine compilations here in both my New Monogram and Alphabets category as well as several of her used books.When I saw this title I could not resist and I am glad I did not. This is truly a unique collection of Monograms and Alphabets. There are all different sizes and styles here but I want to show you a close up of just one of ma...
 
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Alphabets Old and New by Lewis F. Day
Alphabets Old and New by Lewis F. Day
This book is a genuine rarity. I stumbled across it without really knowing anything about it but I now know that it was an amazing find. This is a Rare Book. The entire title is: Alphabets Old and New For The Use of Craftsmen, with an Introductary Essay on *Art Is In The Alphabet* By Lewis F. Day, author of Pattern Design, Ornament and It's Application, Nature and Ornament and more. This is the Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Published in London by B. T. Batsford Ltd. I have no idea...
 
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Letters and Numbers for Needlepoint by Elinor M. Parker
Letters and Numbers for Needlepoint by Elinor M. Parker
This has become, in the years I have been selling rare/used books here, a Very Rare book. It is unusual for more reasons than it's rarity, however. This is a 8 X 10 inch stiff paper bound book originally from Charles Scribner's & Sons, it was published in 1978. I can't see that the date matters much, nothing really changes about stitching letters & numbers on canvas, not really. Plus this book one of the few Monogram and Letters Books I know of that has numbers too (one of them just has 1 se...
 
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Lettering in Embroidery by Janice Williams
Lettering in Embroidery by Janice Williams
This interesting book is about historical lettering applications and lettering design more then an actual instruction book.  There are graphs, lettering templates and instructions but design does seem to be most of what this book is about. It is a Batsford Book, another of thier fine books on stitcery and published in the UK, so the historical design is mostly English. Still is is an interesting read and full of pictures. The chapters are: History of Lettering, History of embroidered Letters...
 
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Monograms and Ciphers by A.A. Turbayne
Monograms and Ciphers by A.A. Turbayne
This is an interesting book, the Monograms & Ciphers shown are all originals, designed & drawn by the author, A.A. Turbayne and other members of the Carlton Studio. I had never heard of The Carlton Studio so I did a search for it. Several possibilities came back from the search. There is a Carlton College of Art in Minnesota. There is also Carlton Studio, associated TV in Nottingham our The Carlton Studio Winery, Wine Club etc. Then again, the original book was 1906 so it could be anyplace or...
 
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Samplers and Samplermakers by Mary Jaene Edmonds
Samplers and Samplermakers by Mary Jaene Edmonds
Mary Jaene Edmonds is also the author of Geometric Designs in Needlepoint, a very interesting book of designs way ahead of it's time.  It has been a constant seller on NewNeedlepoint.com. This is a very different kind of book.  The subtitle is An American Schoolgirl Art 1700-1850. This is not a design or project book.  It is an overview or if you like, an education in these amazing samplers.  Most girls were expected top learn stitchery and a sampler was often part of their education. Some...
 
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Needlework Monograms: Unlimited Contemporary Styles by B. Borssuck
Needlework Monograms: Unlimited Contemporary Styles by B. Borssuck
There has been an amazing response to my article on B. Borssuck's Alphabet & Monogram books in Needlepoint Now magazine. Almost all the orders I recieved were for both books. I am completely sold out of 97 Alphabets for Needlepoint and can't find any more copies at any kind of reasonable price  (as in under $80.00 my cost).    This has happened to me before, I buy so many copies of a particular out-of-print book that I create the rarity and the prices skyrocket. I do have a number of copie...
 
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Modern Monograms by Kiyoshi Takahashi
Modern Monograms by Kiyoshi Takahashi
Dover Publishing is known for excellent books like this, a niche book to be sure but they find them and publish (or re-publish) them. Otherwise books like this would be lost. Modern Monograms has 1310 Graphic Designs for Monograms. Here, monograms are defined as "two or more letters interwoven in artistic harmony. Most, if not all, of the design are are based on 2 letters. The monograms are arranged alphabetically, each letter of the alphabet is combined with every other letter. Modern Mono...
 
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Stitch Alphabets and Numbers by Felicity Hall
Stitch Alphabets and Numbers by Felicity Hall
The subtitle for this interesting book is: 120 Contemporary Designs Fort Cross Stitch and Needlepoint. So many of the current Alphabet books are based on historic designs andf lettering, it is nice to see a book with a more miodern take.  Plus, numbers are very rare among these books.   You wouldn't think this was so but it is. Stitch Alphabets and Numbers begins with some basics, materials needed, basic designs and how to approach it all. The alphabets in this book are truly unique.  I b...
 
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