Swedish weaving pattern book.- Ekenmark (Maria Christina) Monster-Bok for Unga Fruntimmer..., second edition, 51 white-on-black woodcut plates (lacking plate 47 and half of plate 1 missing), most with tears or defects with only a few unblemished, head of title cut away and replaced with later paper, foxing, contemporary half sheep over marbled boards, rubbed, 4to, Linkoping, Axel Petre, 1827.

⁂ Extremely rare Swedish coverlet weaver's pattern and instruction book, which was first published a year earlier. Despite the faults, the plates present are very striking in their unusual white-on-black rendering. Charles B. Wood argues that the very close similarity between the patterns shown here and those in early 19th century American coverlets, might suggest this sort of obscure pattern book may have found its way to America in the 1830s. Seemingly no copies at auction.