Author: [PORTER, George Richardson].
Title: Treatise on the origin, progressive improvement, and present state of the silk manufacture.
Description: London: printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Green and Brown, and John Taylor, 1831. "Dr. Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia Vol XXII." Small 8vo. 4pp adverts, xv[i], 339[1]pp, additional engraved title-page with charming vignette, text ills. Original brown cloth, printed paper spine label. Extremes rubbed and slightly worn, slightly staining to cloth. Title-page misbound at rear. * With the book plate of the Author, his signature to series title page, and with a presentation inscription from his daughter.

Keywords: PORTER silk manufacture Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia