[PORTER, George Richardson]. A Treatise on the Origin, Progressive Improvement, and Present State of the Silk Manufacture. London, Longmans, Reese, Orme etc, 1831.
Small 8vo. Original publiser's cloth with printed lettering-piece to spine; pp. 4 (publisher's catalogue), xv, 339, [2, alternative version of series title], steel-engraved title-page (this a little toned), illustrated with wood-engravings in the text; light wear to hingesm otherwise a very good copy with 19th-ventury blind stamps of Worcester Public Library to a few leaves.
First edition, published in the series Cabinet Encyclopedia, this a thorough treatise on silk production, manufacture and the economic side of the luxury fabric, written by the statistician and son-in-law of the economist Ricardo.
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