A 1926 illustrated book on historical needlework samplers, selected and described by Leigh Ashton of the Victoria and Albert Museum, with an introductory essay and a section on foreign samplers. The bulk of the volume is plates of photographed samplers, mostly English from the late 16th to the 19th century, with some German, Flemish, Danish, Spanish and American examples. Captions give date, owner or collection, maker's name, dimensions, materials and techniques such as drawn-work, cut-work, needle-point lace panels, raised work and band patterns. The introduction discusses the workers, the types of sampler (lace and drawn-work panels, long banded samplers, 18th-century pictorial and bordered samplers with verses) and how they changed over time.