"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.