LEWIS, Frank. English Chintz. From Earliest Times Until the Present Day. Benfleet, Essex: F. Lewis. [1935].
Large 4to. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt, original dust-wrapper, priced 63 shillings (3 Guineas); pp. 36, [2], tipped-in frontispiece of a photographic depiction on an interior of printworks, 152 tipped-in plates with descriptive text on versos; inevitable, but only light wear to wrappers, minimal spotting only here and there to the interior, a very good copy in the rarely preserved wrappers; contemporary ownership inscription J. A. Dobinson to front paste-down.
First and limited edition, number 57 of 500 copies printed. An illustrated chronology of English chintz printing from the earliest times to the mid-1930s. The technique originates from Hyderabad, and the word derives from Hindi 'chimt', meaning speckled or spotted.
Provenance: J. A. Dobinson worked for Stead McAlpin & Co., founded in 1835 and still one of the major cotton printers and suppliers of specimens reproduced in this volume as coordinator between the designers and the printing technicians.
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