Author: HELLOT, (Jean).- DYEING.-
Title: L'Art de la Teinture des Laines et des Etoffes de Laine en grand et petit teint. Avec une Introduction sur les Déboüillis.
Description: Paris, Veuve Pissot, Jean Thomas Herissant, Pissot fils, 1750. 12mo. [Binding 10 x 17 cm]. W. small floral woodc. vignettte on printed title. Woodc. head-piece and woodc. initial 'A 'at p. (1). Fine contemp. full marbled clf., rebacked, original spine material laid down, spine in compartments, red title shield, elaborate floral gilttooling. Covers w. a dark slingle ruled line on the edge of the rebacking. Excellent and quite wonderful old rebacking. [*12, A12 - Z12, Aa - Bb12, Cc6]. (XXIV, 631, I (blank) pp.). Quire B a few lvs. righthand blank margin a thin vague watersp.; quire M5 - 12 top righthand corner idem, but more pronounced; ) (Fine original handmarbled endp.). (All edges red.). First Edition. Siegelaub [ed.], Bibliographica Textilia Historiae [1997], p. 162 , 2nd edition only. 'A book of recipes for dyeing wool, incl. "high quality, permanent" dyeing as well as "fugitive impermanent" dyeing, esp. important for the detailed des[cription] of the practical techniques of dyeing, & the major theory explaining how cloth "holds" dyes. The major 18th c. work.': BT 507 [w. titlepage ill.]:

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