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    By Thomas Woodhouse
    London   Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons
    8.5" by 5.5" xiii, 1-137, [10]pp.
    An excellent illustrated book detailing the remarkable progress made in manufacture and uses of the fabric during the beginning of the twentieth century. In the very scarce dustwrapper.
    By Thomas Woodhouse

    1927 Artificial Silk: Its Manufacture and Uses

    London   Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons
    8.5" by 5.5" xiii, 1-137, [10]pp.
    An excellent illustrated book detailing the remarkable progress made in manufacture and uses of the fabric during the beginning of the twentieth century. In the very scarce dustwrapper.
    £125.00
    : 0.5kgs / : 768A19
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    Description

    Early Edition, Illustrated, Pleasing Copy, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

    An early edition of this fascinating work. 

    An interesting book on the remarkable progress made in the manufacture and uses of fabric in the early twentieth century. By Thomas Woodhouse, textile expert and author of textile works, as well as translator of Artificial Silk and its Manufacture by J Foltzer.

    Richly illustrated with sixty two plates and one coloured frontispiece.

    Including eight pages of Pitman's Textile Industries series' advertisements to the rear.

    With the very scarce, unclipped dustwrapper.

    Condition

    In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally lovely with only minor shelf wear and a slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine. The dustwrapper is unclipped and very smart with only slight shelf wear and sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Richly illustrated with sixty two plates and one coloured frontispiece.

    Near Fine

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