The Manual of Colours and Dye Wares: Their Properties, Applications, Valuation, Impurities, and Sophistications

Description

2nd Edition. 8vo. Hardcover. Original brown cloth, gilt spine title, embossed boards, black front cover decorations. 18.8×12.5×2.4 cm. Crosby Lockwood. London. 1882. iv, 243 pp. + 32, 16 pp. ads. Good condition. Pages lightly age toned with some intermittent smudging and foxing, corners lightly bumped, spine splitting (but still attached) between pages 144 and 145, covers lightly soiled, edges and endpapers lightly foxed, rear endpaper torn. An attractively bound and useful reference on nineteenth century dyes and their applications, arranged alphabetically. weight: 1.0 lb.