Elements of the art of dyeing and bleaching
Count Claude-Louis Berthollet, (1748-1822)
Category
Books
Date
1841
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Osterley Park and House, London
NT 3113267
Summary
Bibliographic description
xvi,540p., [4] plates, [3] folded . ill.. . 8vo.. Not indigenous. Loosely inserted: 1. small nineteenth-century (?) pencil sketch of a ship, annotated "Vernon" 2. clipping from nineteenth-century table of cab fares. 3. Sotheby's catalogue clipping, apparently relating to other acquisitions by Norris (Ham House 1.Dr.17-18). Provenance: Twentieth-century (?) inscription on flyleaf: F. Wright Smith, Ph.D. Bequeathed to the National Trust by Norman Norris (1917-1991). Inscribed on flyleaf in Norris's hand: H. [i.e. Hodgson] 27/2 48 Lot 536, 3/-.. Binding: Nineteenth-centu binding over boards; gilt spine title "Berthollet on dyeing and bleaching".
Makers and roles
Count Claude-Louis Berthollet, (1748-1822) Amédée B. Berthollet (d.1811) Andrew Ure (1778-1857)