A lot of people would like books of stitch diagrams to have accompanying photos of the stitches. Because of the cost, this is rare, but I've assembled a list of books and sites that do have photos and found links to show the covers and titles to help you find a copy. Do a careful search. Copies are available at a variety of price points. Be very careful of Amazon offerings as sellers there often charge a premium price for needlepoint books. You'll almost always find them cheaper at a needlepoint shop.
Jo I. Christensen's The Needlepoint Book - all three editions have small black and white photos.
All of Gone Stitching's books have color photos of their stitches.
Instagram's "Needlepoint Notebook" is all colored photos of stitches with a note as to the book and page number where it was found. There are NO diagrams. You have to look them up in the book where they were found.
Sherri Lantz's Pageant of Pattern - now out of print, has black and white stitched examples of many (but not all I don't think) of the stitches in the book
SuZy Murphy's books (now out of print) have stitched examples in the back, some in color, some in black and white.
Whimsical Stitch's blog posts a stitch diagram each week (sometimes more often) with a colored photo of the stitch. Mary Legellet also has now written a book called Mary's Whimsical Stitches that includes the blog stitches and others that have not appeared on her blog but no photos. Stitches that came from her blog have a URL for her Instagram account however, so you can type that out in your browser to see an example of those.
If you know of stitch diagram books with photos of the stitches worked, please let me know so I can add them to the list. Email me at chilly hollow at hot mail dot com. Thanks.
UPDATE: Another book with diagrams and stitch photos is Susan Sturgeon Roberts' Complete Guide to Needlepoint Stitches. There are 400 stitches included. It is out of print but a newer book is called the Needlepoint Dictionary of Stitches. It has 250 stitches and photos and is available as a Kindle ebook (second link below).
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