"A Winter Gift for Ladies" (1848)

"In [this] little work, all the different species of knitting, netting, and crotchet [sic], are so carefully explained, that a person totally unacquainted with their mysteries, may become a profient with very slight pains" -- from the introduction.

A Winter Gift for Ladies "by an American Lady" -- "being Instructions in Knitting, Netting and Crotchet Work, Containing the Newest and Most Fashionable Patterns from the Latest London Edition" -- published by G.B. Zeiber  of Philadelphia in 1848, is available to view as a PDF free online courtesy of the Antique Pattern Library.

The APL notes that this is "one of the oldest American booklets with crochet patterns".  The author includes a glossary of knitting terms, though no illustrations; patterns include muffatees (both knitted and "crotcheted") and mittens, a variety of purses, and bags, "quilts", stockings, comforters (scarves), shawls, etc., and a cephaline.  Some of the knitted muffatees are worked in the round on four needles and some are worked flat on two needles then sewn up.

Notice that all of the crochet patterns appear to be worked in the round -- it was assumed in the early days of crochet that this had to be done for the correct appearance of the stitches, so that working a crochet piece flat necessitated a surely-tedious cutting of the wool at the end of every row and reattaching it at the beginning.

There is no evidence, unfortunately, that the Winter Gift's "American Lady" is the same as the "American Lady" of Lonely Hours a year later.

"The Knitted Lace Collar Receipt Book"

Mrs. G.J. Baynes's The Knitted Lace Collar Receipt Book (1846) seems to have proved so popular that it went into multiple editions and series with new patterns.  Scans of the fourth edition of 1846 are available free at Archive.org and the Online Books Page, and modern knitted-up examples of a number of its patterns can be found at the book's Ravelry page.  Other modern knitters have worked some of Mrs. Baynes's lace collars, such as the blogger at One More Stitch who discusses her version of Collar no.2 here and here (commenting that the pattern is "clearly written and enjoyable to knit which led me to reflect that in less than ten years [since the publication of The Workwoman's Guide], the art of pattern writing, including the suggestion of needle sizes and materials, had become vastly improved"!) and here.

In addition to the Lace Collar book, Mrs. Baynes also wrote The Album of Fancy Needlework (1847) -- "or, novelties in knitting, netting, and crochet : both useful and ornamental" -- The Berlin Wool Home and Opera Cap Receipt Book (1849), and The Oriental Book of Crochet and Bead Work (1857), which may (also?) have appeared in La Mode Winter Book volume 1 of 1847, possibly a compilation of various needlework books or pamphlets by Eliza Warren, Eléonore Riego de la Branchardière, and others.

Anne (or Ann) Baynes, née Cox (1809-1883), was the wife of bookseller Godfrey John Baynes of Gravesend, Kent, who kept a "circulating library, Berlin wool and fancy depot" (a shop where one purchased "fancy goods," that is, notions and supplies for making decorative items) at 60, Windmill Street, and later at 60-61 High Street in that same town; he published and printed most if not all of his wife's needlework booklets.

Sources

Goulden, R.J. "A biographical dictionary of those engaged in the Kent book trade, 1750-1900, vol.1 A-L" (Croyden : [R.J. Goulden?], 2014), p.64.

"Miss Dewing's Fancy Depot," The Brisbane (Queensland) Courier, 17 December 1900, p.3.

"Knit Baby's First Sock"

Ann Budd has adapted the basketweave baby sock pattern from the 1893 (?) volume 9 of "Weldon’s Practical Needlework" to modern fingering-weight yarn.  It can be found free on the "Piecework" magazine blog.

See Barbara's post at Knitting Now and Then for a tentative dating of the various Weldon's issues.