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Selling silks : a merchant's sample book 1764

Title
Selling silks : a merchant's sample book 1764 / Lesley Ellis Miller.
Author
Miller, Lesley Ellis
Publication
London : V&A Publishing, 2014.

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Description
271 pages : color illustrations, color facsimiles; 32 cm
Summary
"In 1764, British 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 full and faithful reproduction of the whole album, Lesley Miller sets in context the role of the book 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." -- Publisher's description.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-265) and index.
Call Number
JFG 14-213
ISBN
  • 9781851777815 (hardback)
  • 1851777814 (hardback)
LCCN
2013945496
OCLC
858843971
Author
Miller, Lesley Ellis, author.
Title
Selling silks : a merchant's sample book 1764 / Lesley Ellis Miller.
Publisher
London : V&A Publishing, 2014.
Type of Content
still image
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-265) and index.
Research Call Number
JFG 14-213
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