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New and Revised Edition of Technology of Textile Design. A Practical Treatise on The Contruction and Application of Weaves for all Textile Fabrics and the Analysis of Cloth. Containing Also an Appendix Describing All The Latest Methods and Improvements in Designing and Manufacturing. For The Use of Students, Operatives, Overseers, Designers, Mill Managers, Commission Merchants and Manufacturers. With Over 1500 Illustrations.

Posselt E.A. · Philadelphia and London

Author
Posselt E.A.
Date
c1895
Place
Philadelphia and London
Publisher
E.A. Posselt and Sampson Low, Marston and Company, Limited
Language
English
Binding
4to.(7.75" x 10.75") ix pp of ads + 324 pp. + 16 pp of ads. Full black pebbled cloth with gilt author/title with gilt decoration centered to upper board, heavy gilt decoration of machinery and advertisement centered to rear board, spine with gilt lettering. Printed ad endpapers. Both gutters starting, mesh seen, evidence of repair to joints. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with small loss to tips. Head and foot of spine fraying with small loss, rear lower hinge with 3" tear, sympathetically repaired. Upper board soiled at foot and spine. Some pages with tiny closed tears to margins, dog-ears and finger smudges. Illustrated with hundreds of drawings
Category
Architecture, Art & Craft
Record
S.I.8541

New and Revised Edition of Technology of Textile Design. A Practical Treatise on The Construction and Application of Weaves for all Textile Fabrics and the Analysis of Cloth. Also containing an Appendix Describing All the Latest Methods and Improvements in Designing and Manufacturing. For The Use of Students, Operatives, Overseers, Designers, Mill Managers, Commission Merchants, and Manufacturers. With Over 1500 Illustrations. c1895. Philadelphia and London: E.A. Posselt and Sampson Low, Marston and Company, Limited.

4to.(7.75" x 10.75") ix pp of ads + 324 pp. + 16 pp of ads. Full black pebbled cloth with gilt author/title with gilt decoration centered to upper board, heavy gilt decoration of machinery and advertisement centered to rear board, spine with gilt lettering. Printed ad endpapers. Both gutters are starting, mesh is seen, and evidence of repair to joints. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with small loss to tips. Head and foot of spine fraying with small loss, rear lower hinge with 3" tear, sympathetically repaired. Upper board soiled at the foot and spine. Some pages with tiny closed tears to margins, dog-ears, and finger smudges. Illustrated with hundreds of drawings.

Emanuel Anthony Posselt, born in 1858 in Philadelphia, was a leading American textile engineer and author, renowned in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for his expertise in weaving machinery and textile design.

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