The Industrial handbook
Subtitle: containing plain instructions in needlework and knitting, together with directions for the cutting out of all useful garments : to which are added, some rules and receipts for ornamental needle-work, patch-work, and worsted-work, fancy knitting, and crochet : adapted to the use of mothers of families, schoolmistresses, and matrons of emigrant ships
By: edited by the authoress of "The young emigrant," &c
Contributors: Traill, Catherine Parr, 1802-1899; Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain)
Publisher: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
Published: 1853
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 39
Notes: Possibly ed. by Catherine Parr Traill, who published The young emigrants in 1826, and who wrote works similar to The industrial handbook, notably The female emigrant's guide and hints on Canadian housekeeping (1854).

"Published under the direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education, appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge"

Pt. 2 has own t.p. with imprint date 1853; pt. 1 published 1856.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Needlework; title: pt. 2. Knitting.