Description

First edition, 2 vols., text volume: 8vo (215 x 130 mm), xii, 760 pp., half-title, 89 illustrations in the text, olive green quarter calf, patterned paper boards, spine gilt; Atlas volume: oblong 4to (210 x 270 mm), 35 double-page plates (one folding), brown quarter calf, patterned paper boards, spine gilt and slightly rubbed, some light foxing in places in both volumes, generally a very good copy. This interesting and comprehensive work on the textile industry by Michel Alcan, civil engineer and professor at the …cole Centrale of Arts and Manufactures in Paris. The manufacture of various fabrics, methods of weaving and dyeing, types of machinery used, technological improvements, spinning and weaving of cotton, linen, wool, cashmere, silk, and the processing of rubber, the operations of textile mills, and statistics on consumption and duties.