A treatise on the origin, progressive improvement, and present state of the silk manufacture.
G. R. Porter
Category
Books
Date
1831
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 3088671
Summary
Bibliographic description
xv, [1], 339, [1] p. . 8vo.. Previous shelfmark: J.2.50. Provenance: Inscribed: "W. F. beni merito d. d. JW. die 5. Cal. Aug. 1839". Binding: Nineteenth-century gold-tooled blue leather armorial binding; armorial device with the motto: "Virtuti Moenia Cedent".
Makers and roles
G. R. Porter Dionysius Lardner (1793-1859)