L'art de la teinture des laines, et des étoffes de laine, en grand et petit teint: Avec une instruction sur les déboüillis

Abstract

Fine copy of the first edition of the first systematic treatise on wool dyeing, and one of the most important works in the history of dyeing. It is no. 3 in Sidney Edelstein’s “Thirteen Keys”, with the following comment: “Hellot published a methodical description of the processes which are practiced in the dyeing of wool, which forms still the best treatise we possess on this subject” (this is actually Edelstein’s quotation from Berthollet, 1824) - Historical notes on the wet processing industry, N.Y., l972, p. 84. It had many other editions: French: Paris, 1786; Italian: Verona, 1791; German: Althenburg, 1765; English: Part I of The art of dyeing wool, silk and cotton, London, 1789. Lawrie 303. Bolton, I, P. 521. Brunello, The art of dyeing, (1973), p. 228. Partington, III, 67-68. Edelstein Collection 3117. Neu 1879 and 1880 citing later a later French edition of 1786 and the English edition of 1789. (Charles Wood 160/157)