A guide to the creation of different silk fabrics, this manuscript is unusual in including the original fabric swatches with detailed technical diagrams for their construction.
Description:
Imperfect: some pages mutilated with loss of text.
Subject (Topic):
Silk industry --France, Silk weaving --France --Early works to 1800, Textile industry --France, Weavers --France, and Workshop recipes --Early works to 1800
D’Aulaire, Edgar Parin, 1898-1986 D’Aulaire, Ingri, 1904-1980
Published / Created:
c1952
Call Number:
Shirley +215
Image Count:
34
Description:
Includes four lithographic stones used in the four-color-process printing of the illustrations and held in the E.P. and Ingri D'Aulaire Papers, Uncat MSS 985. Drawings on both sides of stones.
Publisher:
Doubleday & Co
Subject (Name):
Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917--Juvenile literature
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Juvenile literature and Plains Indians--Juvenile literature
Playing cards have color illustrations and suits and blank versos. Cards are translucent and illustrated with hidden illustrated scenes, captions include Biblical proverbs.
From volume containing autograph manuscript records of shipments made by an unidentified carrier in California. Records list letters, packages, and other articles, with names of senders, destinations, values, and charges. Pressed samples of California...
