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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> In 1764 Betish Customs confiscated a book containing hundreds of silk samples of different qualities from French agents who were attempting to sell them illegally in London. The merchant’s sample book acquired in 1972 by the V&A may be this very book a fascinating record of the eighteenth-century French and English silk industries and their commercial practices. Alongside a faithful reproduction of the book Lesley Miller sets in context its role as a marketing tool from the premier European silk-weaving centre of Lyon and as a model for Spitalfields manufacturers. This publication makes accessible the contents of an extremely rare and fragile object. Translations of French inscriptions identification of how samples have migrated from one page to another and technical analysis of some of the silks as well as a glossary and biographical data on the Lyonnais suppliers make this an invaluable resource for historians collectors and designers. (MP)