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New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1927. First edition. Ex-library. Maroon buckram. Very good. 108 pages in text. Notes on The History of Cotton Printing Especially in England and America by Francis Morris. Ninety-twoblack and white and color plates. Bibliography. List of Centers of Cotton Printing in France 1760-1815. Index. Limited edition, one of 2000.ARNTZEN/RAINWATER P670. "An important… Read more about this item

London: Theodore Brun, 1949. First edition. leather_bound. Full black morocco, front cover decorated in gilt. Fine. 291 pages. 30.5 x 25 cm. Limited edition, copy 80 of 100. The first volume published in 1947 by Alan Wingate was a great success, this the second effort. Glossary of Professional Affixes. Index To Designers. Plethora of plates, multiple images per… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated cloth. Fine. 169 pages. 30.5 x 24 cm. Profusely illustrated with color plates. Interior design, Batik and other textiles from the Far East for decorating the home.

Nanking: Museum of The Institute of History and Philology, 2002. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. 329 pages. 27.5 x 21.5 cm. The museum has over 400,000 items in its permanent collection, making it one of the largest in China. Especially notable is the museum's enormous collections of Ming and Qing imperial porcelain, which is among… Read more about this item

Paris: Henri Ernst, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. Three portfolios in marbled boards, brown and black boards respectively with contents loose as issued laid-in. Very good. Folios, 38.5 x 28.5 cm. All contents in French, and retrospectively -- 4 page text Espagnoles by J. Villaba (30 plates with locals); Finnois & Siberiens, 4 pages text with map (28 plates… Read more about this item

New York: Grasselli Dyestuff Corporations, Nd. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth. Very good. 6 pages in text. 22 x 14.5 cm. 15 leaves with a total of 296 dye samples in a myriad of colors. Grasselli imported dyestuffs manufactured by Bayer & Co. in Leverkusen, Germany. This catalogue 25. Nr. 2735, made in Germany with text in German, French… Read more about this item

New York: John Campbell & Company, 1920. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth stamped and lettered in gilt. Very good. 5 pages in text. 23 x 15 cm. Comprises the company's Amidine, Sol-Amadine and Develop colors, a complete line of standard colors for cotton. Four fold-out pages of color samples, 86 color samples in total all are present, with latter… Read more about this item

New York & London: Charles Scribner's Sons & Chapman and Hall, 1898. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth decorated in leaf motifs. Very good. 2 vols. 409, 411 pages. 23 x 16 cm. Vol. I: 436 illustrations (Charles Scribner's Sons), Vol.II; 317 illustrations (Chapman and Hall). Modest intermittent toning Vol. I, Vol. II clean, slight crinkling to backstrip extremities. … Read more about this item

Paris: Chez Pavard, 1788. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary full brown tree calf. Very good. 5 pages in text. 22 x 17 cm. Seventy-four full-page hand-colored aquatint plates, all with tissue guards. Born in Canada, Grasset removed to France in 1764, serving there as writer, diplomat and publisher with a bent toward Republicanism and enlightenment ideals. Set complete in… Read more about this item

Paris: Delarue, 1850. Original Wraps. Orig. printed light gray wrappers chipped with slight loss at one lower corner (front cover) and one upper corner (back cover). Very good.. 272 pages in text. 15 x 10 1/2 cm. 25 numbered full-page plates (some double-paged), plus 32 supplemental plates numbered A-Z, AA-FF, with additional plates and illustrations within the text… Read more about this item

Plauen: Verlag von Christian Stoll, 1907. First edition. Boards. Orig. brown boards, cloth spine renewed, cover printed in dark red, cloth ties. Very good. Folio, 48 x 33 cm. No text. Twenty-four plates printed recto only, color lithographs with a host of images per plate of textile designs made in the Atelier Haebler or by Fritz Herz --… Read more about this item

Sturbridge: Old Sturbridge Village, 1972. Second edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Fine. 82 pages. 22 x 18 cm. Illustrated: 48 black and white reproductions.

Grand Rapids: Dean-Hicks, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated red cloth. Very good. 382 pages. 28 x 22 cm. Illustrated in color and black and white. Index. Ex-library.

Stockholm: Johan Horberg, 1827. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary half polished russet calf and marbled boards. All edges yellow. Fine.. 137 pages. 27 1/2 x 22 cm. Forty-seven hand-colored engraved plates with tissue guards, plus hand-colored vignette title, and two engraved plates of music. Grafstrom, poet and historian wrote the text, and Forssell made the engravings. Index. List of… Read more about this item

London: Cassell, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth. Fine in slightly chipped dust wrapper. 135 pages. 4to, profusely illustrated in black and white and in color from contemporary sources, and reproduced from authentic documents. The author traces the history of fashion from primitive times to the present, and presents answers to the question: what is fashion? … Read more about this item

Paris: H. Ernst, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. cloth and board portfolio with ties. Very good. 4 pages in text. 22 x 17 cm. Folio, a total of forty-eight plates loose as issued -- thirty-six in color, many with multiple images per plate, and twelve in black and white. Vivid and nuanced color reproductions. Backstrip extremities chipped. … Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Bros, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth.Very good in rubbed dust wrapper. 375 pp. Forward by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. 128 pages of photographs, and four full-color plates. Discusses the work of hundreds of different crafts people. Index. KARPELE280. "....this book is a fascinating in-depth survey of New England crafts from needlework, metalwork, and… Read more about this item

New York: Howes Publishing, 1928. First edition. Boards. Orig. thick navy boards chipped at corners. Very good. 163 pages. 27 x 18.5 cm. Photographs. Index. A Technical Treatise with Tables and Charts Covering Basic, Mordant, Insoluble AZO, Cibacet, Direct, Acid and Vat Dyes.

New York: MOMA, 1956. First edition. Boards. Orig. illustrated boards. Near fine in very good dust wrapper. 95 pages. Illustrated with 110 plates in color (good quality) and black and white. Text by Pupul Jayakar and John Irwin.

Paris: Librairie Des Arts Decoratifs, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. Folio, loose as issued. Housed in modern, black cloth clam shell box. Very good. 9 pages in text. Folio, 40 x 30 cm. 112 heliogravure plates (many plates with two images) of textile fabrics from a private collection. One plate chipped with loss at margins; approximately six plates stained,… Read more about this item