x, 274pp, with 80 illustrations. Burgundy cloth-covered boards; blind embossed design and borders on front, gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Sun faded spine, bumped ends. Light bum to bottom corners and top front edge. Light wear. Top text block edge dusty and just starting to fox. Evidence of glue on endpapers suggests that there may have been a glassine jacket in the past. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Describes the manufacture, properties, bleaching, dyeing and finishing of the different kinds of commercial artificial silks.