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 vignette, text illustrations. Original brown cloth, printed paper spine label, uncut. Extremes rubbed and slightly worn; spine label browned and chipped; slight staining to cloth; engraved title-page browned with offset to adjoining pages. Ex-library with the following evidence: traces of label removal from spine tail, book-plate to fpdep, ink-stamps to lower margins of title-page, last page and duplicated title-page at rear.

Keywords: PORTER silk manufacture Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia