PARTRIDGE, William.

A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON DYING OF WOOLEN, COTTON, AND SKEIN SILK,; The manufacturing of Broadcloth and Cassimere, including the most improved methods pursued in the west of England, in which the various manipulations are accurately delineated. Also, A correct description of sulphuring woolens, and chemical bleaching of cottons.

NY: Wallis & Co., for the author, 1823. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 288. Includes a single folding table and an advertisement for Dye Stuffs being sold by Partridge at his store in New York. Bound in chipped full calf, front cover loose, some knawing to the lower foredge of the title page, but a good copy. Rink 1864, Imprints 13674. Item #53858

Taking knowledge from the English experience, Partridge wrote this book for Americans.

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