Before 1840
Instructions on Needlework (1832 Nat Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor)
Misses Watts : The Ladies' Knitting and Netting Book for 1837 (1837 John Miland)
[Anon until the 5th Edition in 1840]
The Knitting Teacher's Assistant (1838 J Hatchard)
A Lady : The Workwoman's Guide (1838)
1840-1844
Jane Gaugain : The Lady's Assistant (1840)
Appendix to the Lady's Assistant (1840)
The Lady's Assistant : 2nd Volume (1842)
The Ladies' Handbook of Knitting, Netting & Crochet (1842 H G Clarke)
The Ladies' Handbook of Knitting, Netting & Crochet : 2nd Series (1842 H G Clarke)
The Ladies' Worktable Book (1842 Darton)
Mr Hope & Mrs George Curling : The Knitter's Friend (1842)
Cornelia Mee : Manual of Knitting, Netting & Crochet (1842)
The Worktable & Embroidery Frame Companion (c1842 C Mitchell)
The Young Ladies' Worktable & Embroidery Frame Manual (1843 H G Clarke)
Jane Gaugain : Miniature Knitting, Netting & Crochet Book (1843)
Misses Watts : Selections of Knitting, Netting & Crochet Work (1843)
Frances Lambert : The Hand-Book of Needlework (1843)
Frances Lambert : My Knitting Book (1843)
ANON : A Guide to Knitting, Netting & Crochet (1844)
Jane Gaugain : Accompaniment to the Second Volume (1844)
Mr Hope & Mrs George Curling : Book of Babies' Wardrobe in Knitting & Netting (1844)
Mrs Elizabeth Jackson : The Practical Companion to the Work Table (1844)
Cornelia Mee : Companion to the Worktable (1844)
Mrs Henry Owen : The Illuminated Ladies' Book of Useful and Ornamental Needlework (1844)
1845-1846
The Handbook of Knitting (c1845 Thomas Gill, Easingwold)
Frances Lambert : The Hand-Book of Needlework : 2nd Series (1845)
My Knitting Book : 2nd Series (1845)
Mrs Henry Owen : The Handbook of Knitting (1845)
The Handbook of Useful and Ornamental Amusements (1845 Smith Elder)
Misses Watts : The Illustrated Knitting, Netting & Crochet Book (1845)
Mrs J Burrell : Knitted Lace Edgings (1845)
Knitted Lace Edgings : 2nd Series (1846)
Knitted Lace Edgings : 3rd Series (1846)
Jane Gaugain : The Lady's Assistant Vol III (c1846)
The Knitter's Friend (1846)
Mrs M A Edwards : The Ladies' Cabinet of Knitted Insertion Lace & Zephyr Wool Collars (1846)
The Ladies' Cabinet of French Designs for Insertion Lace Cuffs, Edgings & Collars (1846)
The Ladies' Worktable Book (1846 Darton. 3rd Ed)
Mrs J B Gore : The Royal Shetland Shawl, Lace Collar, Brighton Slipper and China Purse Receipt Book
(1846)
Rachel Jane Cattlow : Directions for Plain Knitting for the Working Classes and Schools (1846)
Miss Hartree : My Knitted Collar Book (1846)
Cornelia Mee : Exercises in Knitting (1846)
Mrs Godfrey John Baynes : The Knitted Lace Collar Receipt Book (1846)
The Knitted Lace Collar Receipt Book : 2nd Series (1846)
Eleanore Riego de la Branchardiere : Knitting, Crochet & Netting (1846)
Mrs William Savage : The Winchester Fancy Needlework Instructor (1846)
Arthur Wallis : The Brighton Knitting Book (1846)
1847
Mrs Godfrey John Baynes : The Knitted Lace Collar Receipt Book : 3rd Series (1847)
The Album of Fancy Needlework (Parts 1-3)
(1847)
The Album of Fancy Needlework (Part 4)
(1848)
The Knitted Lace Chemisette & Stomacher Receipt Book (1847)
The Knitted Stocking and Sock Book (1847 Aylott & James. 2nd Ed)
The Young Mother's Scrap Book (1847)
Jane Gaugain : Knitting Book of Turkish, Pyrenees & Shetland Shawls and Scarfs (1847)
Knit Polka Book (1847)
Open Knit D'Oyley Book No 1 (1847)
Pyrenees & Shetland Knits Shawl and Scarf Book (1847)
Apolline Flohr : The German Christmas Eve (1847)
Mrs G Linnaeus Banks : The Lace Knitter's Intelligible Guide - 1st Series (1847)
Marie Jane Cooper : The New Guide to Knitting and Crochet (1847)
Agnes Green : The Knitted Curtain Receipt Book (1847)
Mr Hope & Mrs George Curling : The Knitter's Casket (1847)
Knitting Book for Polka Dresses (1847)
C E A J : The Floral Knitting Book .. Imitations of Natural Flowers (1847)
Frances Lambert : The Ladies' Pocket Book of Knitting (1847)
Miss Lambton : The Ladies' Pocket Book of Useful and Ornamental Knitting (1847)
Cornelia Mee & Mary Austin : Worktable Magazine (1847)
Eleanore Riego de la Branchardiere : The Knitting Book (1847)
Mrs Dresser Rogers : The Regal Knitted Collar Book (1847)
Mrs William Savage : Gems of Knitting and Crochet (1847)
1848-1850
Miss A'Beckett : Companion to the Berlin Wool House (1848)
The Ladies' Worktable Book (1848 Darton. 5th Ed)
Mrs Herbert : The Christmas Book of Crochet, Knitting & Braid (1848)
Mr Hope & Mrs George Curling : The Prize Knitting Book (1848)
The Ramsgate Book of Knitted Lace Edgings (1848)
The Ramsgate Knitting Book (1848)
C E A J : Berries and Fruit Knitting Book (c1848)
F G Kelly : The Lady's Knitting Book (1848 4th Ed)
A Lady : The Knitter's Cabinet (1848)
Cornelia Mee : Polka Jackets in Knitting and Crochet (1848)
Eleanore Riego de la Branchardiere : The Winter Book for 1848 (1848)
Mrs R Ring : The Higbury Handbook of Useful and Ornamental Needlework (1848)
Mrs Godfrey John Baynes : The Berlin Wool Home and Opera Cap Receipt Book (1849)
Mrs Esther Copley : The Comprehensive Knitting Book (1849)
Madame Dufour : Ladies' Album for the Work Table or Gift Book for 1849
Jane Gaugain : Book of Novelties in Knitting & Crochet (1849)
Mrs Elizabeth Jackson : The Polka Book (1849)
ANON : Knitting and Crochet Lace Edgings (c1850)
Miss Chardin : The Lady's Repository of Receipts (c1850)
Mrs M A Edwards : A New Guide to Knitting (c1850 Birmingham)
Mrs J W Giles : The Gift Netting, Knitting & Crochet Book (c1850)
No 3 Knitting Instructions (c1850 Jevons & Mellor)
A Parisian Lady : The Lady's Cabinet of French Designs (c1850)
Mrs William Savage : The Knitted Paletot (1850)
Polka Jacket Book (1850)
The Ladies' Worktable Book (1850 Slater. 3rd Ed)
C & W Thomson : The Knitted Lace Pattern Book (c1850)
The Knitting & Crochet Work Book - 1st Series (nd.)
The Knitting & Crochet Work Book - 2nd Series (nd.)
1851-1860
Finchley Manual of Industry : No 3 - Needlework ( c1851)
Mr W Carter : The Royal Victoria Knitting Book (c1851-2 - 13 numbers)
The Royal Exhibition Knitting, Netting & Crochet Book (c1852 - c12 numbers)
The Princess Royal Knitting and Crochet Book (c1852)
ANON : Needlework Panorama of Knitting, etc (1852)
The Ladies' Worktable Book (1852 Bohn)
The Ladies' Drawing-Room Book (1852 Cassell)
The Ladies' Work Book (1852)
- [Part II of the above]
Knitting and Crochet Book for the Million (1852 J T Wood)
Six Shetland Shawls (c1853 Faudel & Phillips)
The Favourite Crochet, Knitting, Netting & Embroidery Book (1853 Marsland)
Miss Ronaldson : The Lady's Book of Useful and Ornamental Knitting and Netting Work (1853)
Jane Gaugain : The Book of Knitted Veils (1854)
G Ingram : Ingram's Exhibition Knitting & Crochet Book (1854)
Eleanore Riego de la Branchardiere : Comforts for the Crimea, or the Fourth Winter Book (1854)
Arthur Wallis & Mrs Pullan : Treasures in Needlework (1855)
Cornelia Mee : Manual of Needlework (1854)
Alliance Book of Knitting, Netting and Crochet (1856)
Mrs Pullan : The Lady's Dictionary of Needlework (1856)
Eleanore Riego de la Branchardiere : The Child's Winter Knitting Book (1857)
The Winter Knitting Book for 1859 (1859)
The Andalusian Knitting & Netting Book (1860)
The Book of 12-Ply Siberian Wool (1860)
Cornelia Mee & Mary Austin : Manual of Knitting (1860)
Manual of Knitting : 2nd Series (c1860)
Mrs Walker : The Book of Fancy Knitting (nd. 1860s)
The Handbook of Plain and Fancy Knitting (c1860 Webb & Millington)
1861-1870
Mme Marie Girardin, Mrs Warren & Mrs Pullan : Elegant Work for Delicate Fingers (1861)
Eleanore Riego de la Branchardiere : Melange de laine for Siberian and Leviathan Wools (1861)
Cornelia Mee & Mary Austin : Knitter's Companion 1 (1861)
Knitter's Companion 2 (1862)
Eleanore Riego de la Branchardiere : The Winter Book for 1862 (1862)
Knitter's Companion 3 (Queen's Winter Knitting Book)
(1863)
Jane Gaugain : The Lady's Assistant in 12 Parts (1863)
[A one volume edition was issued in 1875]
Miss E Ryder : How to Knit Socks (1863)
- 10 cards
Madame Elise : Madame Elise's Crochet & Knitting Winter Book (1864)
Eleanore Riego de la Branchardiere : The Useful Knitting Book (1864)
Rigolette De La Hamelin : The Royal Magazine of Knitting, Netting, Crochet & Fancy Needlework
(c1865)
Miss E Ryder : How to Knit Stockings (1865)
- 4 cards
Miss H P Ryder : Children's Comforts and How to Knit Them (1866)
Mrs George Cupples : The Stocking Knitter's Manual (1867)
Arthur Wallis : The New Knitter (1868)
Eleanore Riego de la Branchardiere : The Abergeldie Winter Book (1867)
A New Wool Book (1869)
Cornelia Mee : Comforts for the Sick and Wounded (Queen's Winter Book 2)
(c1869)
Cornelia Mee & Mary Austin : Knitter's Companion 4 (Queen's Winter Knitting Book)
(1869)
Novelties in Needlework 1 (1869)
Novelties in Needlework 2 (1869)
Bijou Receipts for Baby's Wardrobe : Two Series (1869)
Arthur Wallis : 16 Fancy-Work Designs (1869)
Novelties in Needlework 3 (c1870)
Samuel Orchard Beeton : Beeton's Book of Needlework (1870)
Madame Adolphe Goubaud : Knitting and Netting Patterns (1870)
A Lady Manager : The Standard Guide to Knitting According to the Code (1870)
1871-1880
Mrs George Cupples : A Knitting-Book of Counterpanes (1871)
E & J Le Boutillier : Third Series of Parisian Antimacassars (1871)
Elvina M Corbould : The Lady's Knitting Book (1874)
The Lady's Knitting Book : 2nd Series (1875)
The Lady's Knitting Book : 3rd Series (1875)
The Lady's Knitting Book : 4th Series (1875)
Cornelia Mee & Mary Austin : 12 Bijou Receipts for Knitting & Crochet (1875)
The Lady's Book of Knitting & Crochet (1875 J Henry Symonds)
Weldon's Practical Shilling Guide to Needlework (c1875 Weldon)
Elvina M Corbould : The Lady's Work Book : 1st Series (1876)
Mrs A Floyer : Plain Knitting and Mending in Six Standards (1876)
The Home Knitter (1876 Johnstone, Hunter)
Miss E Ryder : How to Knit Spun-Silk Socks & Stockings (1876)
- 4 cards
Miss H P Ryder : Winter Comforts and How to Knit Them (1876)
- 4 cards
The Home Knitter : 2nd Series (1877 Johnstone, Hunter)
Elvina M Corbould : The Knitting Teacher's Assistant (1877)
(Ed)
E M Corbould : The Knitting Teacher's Assistant (1877)
[A New edition of the book originally issued in 1838]
Mrs Wells : New Knitting Book (1878)
Miss Cressy : Instruction Cards for Knitting Socks and Stockings (c1880)
New Series of Berlin Patterns (c1880 London Lace Paper & Valentine Co)
Henrietta F R A Warleigh : Knitting for Everyone (c1880)
1881-1890
Mrs A Floyer : Needle Drill, Position Drill & Knitting Pin Drill (1881)
F Heath : Invariable Stocking Scale (1881)
S F A Caulfeild & Blanche C Saward : The Dictionary of Needlework (1882)
Elvina M Corbould : Mother's Knitter (1882)
Dorinda : Needlwork for Ladies for Pleasure and Profit (1882)
Sylvia : Book of Designs in Knitting (1882)
ANON : Swiss Darning (1883)
Henrietta F R A Warleigh : Full Directions and Scales for Knitting Socks (1883)
Full Directions and Scales for Knitting Gloves (1883)
Full Directions and Scales for Knitting Edgings (c1884)
Full Directions for Knitting Circles (1885)
E Lewis : Directions for Knitting Socks & Stockings (1883)
Wools and How to Use Them (1884)
Elvina M Corbould : Directions for Knitting Drawers (1884)
A E Curtis : Selfhelp Knitting Cards (1884)
J Foster : Instructions for Knitting a Sock & Stockings (1884)
Complete Guide to the Worktable (1884 The Young Ladies' Journal)
Helen K Brietzcke & Emily F Rooper : A Manual of Collected Lessons in Plain Needlework & Knitting
for Use in Elementary Schools (1885)
Victoria Knitting Cards (1885 Cox & Co)
A E K : The Creeve Knitting Card (1885)
Miss Ronaldson : Gift Book of Useful and Ornamental Knitting (1885)
Therese de Dillmont : Encyclopaedia of Needlwork (1886)
Eleanore Riego de la Branchardiere : The Winter Book for 1886 (1886)
'Grandmother' : Cottager's Comforts and Other Recipes in Knitting (1887)
Elvina M Corbould : The Useful Knitter : Part 1 (1887)
The Useful Knitter : Part 2 (1887)
Myra (Mrs Matilda Browne)
: Myra's Knitting Books (1899)
ANON : Knitter's Notebook (1890)
Elvina M Corbould : The Knitter's Notebook (1890)
M Elliott : A Book of Hats and Caps (1890)
After 1891
Tranter and Adams : Roumanian Knitting Cards (1891)
M Waite : Knitting Cards for Standards III & IV (1891)
The Art of Knitting (1892 Butterick)
Isobel : Isobel's Plain Needlework (1893)
Elizabeth Rosevear : A Textbook of Needlework, Knitting & Cutting Out (1893)
[Other editions appeared in 1894, 1902 & 1904]
Needlework, Knitting and Cutting Out for Older Girls (1894)
A Manual of Needlework, Knitting and Cutting Out for Evening Continuation Schools (1894)
C Goulden : Needlework and Knitting Drills (1895)
E De Barras : Plain and Fancy Knitting (1896 Nutshell Series)
Aunt Kate (Helen Greig Souter)
: Aunt Kate's Knitting & Crochet Book (1896)
Miss H P Ryder : Cycling and Shooting Knickerbocker Stockings (1896)
M Elliott Scrivenor : Paton's Knitting & Crochet Book (1896)
Fancy & Practical Knitting (1897 Butterick)
Mrs A Floyer : Stocking Knitting Made Easy (1899)
Pearsall's Illustrated Handbook for Knitting in Silks (1899)
St Andrew's Series (c1900 Head)
Miss Sophy Loch : The Book of Hows (1900)
T M James : Longman's Complete Course of Needlework, Knitting & Cutting Out (1901)
W & A K Johnston : Sewing and Knitting Designs (1901)
Miss Sophy Loch : The Second Book of Hows (1902)
Henrietta F R A Warleigh : Ladies' Work for Sailors (1902 Mission to Seamen)
Eleanore Riego de la Branchardiere : Selected Works (1904-5)
- Edited by Mrs Rivers Turnbull
Aunt Kate (Helen Greig Souter)
: Aunt Kate's Homework (c1907)
Mrs Shearman : Her Ladyship's Knitting Book (1909)