Packer, Thomas, The dyer's guide , 1830
- Title(s):
- The dyer's guide : being a compendium of the art of dyeing linen, cotton, silk, wool, muslin, dresses, furniture, &c. &c. with the method of scouring wool, bleaching cotton, &c. and directions for ungumming silk, and for whitening and sulphuring silk and wool : and also an introductory epitome of the leading facts in chemistry, as connected with the art of dyeing / by Thomas Packer, dyer and practical chemist.
- Additional Title(s):
- Title on printed spine label: Packer's Dyer's guide
- Edition:
- Second edition, corrected and materially improved
- Published/Created:
- London : Printed for Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, Paternoster-Row, 1830.
London : Printed by R. Gilbert - Physical Description:
- [7], vi-viii, 156 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsTP897 .P33 1830Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/457389
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- A letterpress frontispiece includes seven color samples in watercolor.
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in contemporary linen backed boards, with printed spine label. Ink stamp of C. Parsonage at head of title-page and verso of frontispiece. [14] pages of publisher's advertisements at end not included in pagination. - Subject Terms:
- Color in the textile industries.Dyes and dyeing -- Textile fibers.Parsonage, C. -- Stamp.
- Form/Genre:
- Samples.
Publisher's advertisements. - Export:
- XML
- Chapter I. Introductory
- II. On dyeing cotton
- III. On dyeing silk
- IV. On scouring and dyeing wool
- V. On dyeing silk and cotton black
- VI. On dyeing cotton and silk.
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