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There are many different types of crochet samplers. Click on images for more examples/details on each type.
The most common type in the US is the book form.
Often these were soft books made up of same-sized fabric pages stitched together at the spine.
Snippets of crochet are tacked into the book with loose stitching.
A variation on the book form consists of crochet snippets tacked into paper books, sometimes with pages covered with fabric and other times
snippits are tacked directly onto the paper.
The sheet form of crochet samplers consist of sheets of fabric with snippets stitched to them.
There is another type that I call the Germanic roll type.
They are elongated samplers, usually made up of almost 4- to 5-inch squares in different patterns of stitches, sometimes with red embroidery added.
They can be rolled up for storage. Each one I have seen came from German-speaking areas of Europe or the U.S.
I am hesitant to call the last group a "sampler", because it is not in one piece, but rather loose crochet snippets.
Some people used collections of loose crochet snippets, not bound together, but stored together, as they would a sampler.