A Treatise on the Art of Weaving, illustrated with engravings. With calculations and tables for the use of manufacturers

Glasgow: Blackie, Fullarton, & Co, 1827. Very Good. Glasgow: Blackie, Fullarton, & Co., 1827. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Thick octavo; modern tan calf over marbled paper-covered boards, red gilt spine labels; [4],[2],xiv,518pp. (collated complete); engraved frontispiece and fourteen leaves of plates, one partly hand-colored, 4pp. of pictorial publisher's advertisements bound at head of volume on yellow stock, hundreds of figures in text. Contents uncut and sound, though folding plates a bit foxed and often mis-folded, Plates 5 and 10 torn, else a Very Good copy.

Uncommon and remarkably detailed guide to weaving, commercial and otherwise, providing a chronology of the history of weaving in Great Britain as well as chapters divided by weave types--tweels, lined work, dornick and diaper, double cloth, corduroys, gauzes, etc. The final chapter pertains to the increasingly popular use of the power loom.