OH, these are GORGEOUS!!! From Project Gutenberg, this book was originally published in 1899. The pictures obviously are in black and white, but i'm sure a search online would turn up colour photos from museums. There are both descriptions of the books and "how-to's" in the main book. Project Gutenberg itself has a vast compendium of needlework books from every era possible, with subjects from hat making and needlelace to book binding and "fancywork" of all sorts. All are available as free downloads, and most give you a "main site" so you can see what it is before you choose to download.
The photo above(or wherever Blogger put it!) :"The most decorative, and in many ways the finest, of all the remaining embroidered books of the time of Elizabeth is now at the Bodleian Library at Oxford. It is one of the 'Douce' Bibles, printed in London in 1583, and probably bound about the same time. It was the property of the Queen herself, and is bound in crimson velvet, measuring 17 by 12 inches."
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