Receipts For Calico Printing, Particularly With Reference To The Employment Of Madder Extracts And Artificial Alizarine
Providence, Rhode Island: Sidney S. Rider & Brother, 1872. Hardcover. blue boards w/ stamped border edging & gilt printing. 96 pgs. Good- (ex-laboratory library w/ stamps to title pg, occasional embossed stamp to pgs, etc. scuffs & rubbing to boards & edges; corners rubbed to boards. upper section of spine chipped w/ spine visible, spine binding torn & flapped. spine darkened. back hinge paper split, binding remains intact but stretched; hinges rattled). Item #189195
Numerous pencil notations to opening pastedown and endpaper. Includes "recipes" for various colors and "matter." Pages will have occasional instances of calculations to margins. Closing advertising section has a fabric sample glued to a page with tanned section to opposing page. A fascinating artificat and collectible on the Calico printing process. Uncommon.
OCLC: 14394547
Price: $48.00