THE KNITTING BOOK.
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PREFACE.
It is usually considered necessary to introduce works of anydescription, however trifling, with a few prefatory remarks. Happilythe days of dedication are nearly at their close, and an author hasnow only to direct the attention of the reader to any particularleading features.
I trust that my endeavours in this Knitting Book, in theelementary instructions contained, with the full explanation of termsand carefully executed illustrations, are conveyed with adistinctiveness, easily to be comprehended by the learner. The designsare original, and have repeatedly been worked with great care, toprove their correctness; the illustrations have equally shared mysupervision; and I humbly hope and trust that it may be as successful,and give as much satisfaction to my friends and the public, as myCrochet Book, for which I am amply rewarded by itsunprecedented success, and grateful for the many flatteringtestimonials received. I must here also make some observations uponthe many cheap publications that have recently appeared (two of whichhave copied verbatim my illustrated instructions, even to afault in the drawing), and to direct the attention of those of myreaders competent to understand the many plagiarisms and generalunfitness as works of instruction, of the majority, if not the wholeof those publications. I should hope, and it is needless to say, thatthese remarks proceed not from the impulse of a spirit of rivalry, butfrom a sincere conviction that the details and instructions thereinconveyed are calculated seriously to mislead, if not entirely preventand disgust the student from acquiring a proper knowledge of theseelegant and usefuliiemployments, by their incorrectness; that, in short, they are nothingmore th