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Hardcover. Condizione: As New. 1st Edition. This wonderful interior design book is justly sought after. It has split pages, and is expensive to produce. The permutations are available in the split page layout means an almost infinite matching or contrast facility. This is an unread copy of the first printing and it is not annotated, written in, stuffed with notes or abused in any way. A really practical guide for designers it is most often found in a well used state, and this one is not like that at all. It was issued with a special wipe clean surface and without a jacket. Exemplary text and photography means this is a useful guide for all designers and home makers. alike. A brilliant book, rightly regarded as a classic. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Berthollet, C[laude] L[ouis] & A[médé] B[erthollet]: Éléments de l art de la teinture, avec une description du blanchiment par l acide muriatique oxigéné. Seconde édition revue, corrigée et augmentée, avec deux planches. Paris, Firmin Didot, an XIII (1804). 2 vols in 8vo. viii + 478p; [2]f +357+ [3]p including tables and publisher s advertisement. 2 folding plates with 10 illustrations engraved by Sellier after Girard at the end of volume II. Marbled endpapers. Contemporary quarter sheep, back-strip decorated in gilt with russet & green gilt-stamped title and number labels; corners & edges worn. The second French edition (first 1791) of this classic on dyeing prepared with the assistance of the au thor s son, enlarged by a section on bleaching with chlorine. Amédé Barthélemy, worked in a small lab oratory at Oberkampf s cotton printing factory in Jouy-en-Josas which gave him first-hand experience in dye substances, textiles and chemistry. The first volume contains chapters on the theory of colours and their distinctive properties, mordants, acids, the differences between wool, silk, cotton, linen and hemp, bleaching, washing, the different processes of dyeing and their chemical agents; the second volume comprises observations on dyeing in various colours, their properties, the fast colours indigo and madder together with a discussion of natural and chemically produced colours. (Cole, p49). Dictionary of Science Biography II, pp73-82; En Français dans le text no 215; Partington III, p514.