Cassella & Co. (Leopold) The Immedial Colours and their Application to Cotton, double-sided frontispiece, 10 sheets with 107 mounted colour fabric swatches & yarns, 4 folding, a couple lightly soiled and creased at edge, original cloth, a little damp-stained at lower edge, Frankfurt, 1901 § Dépierre (J.) Traité de la Teinture et de l'Impression des Matières colorantes artificielles. Part I only (of 5: Les Couleurs d'Aniline), first edition, over 200 mounted fabric swatches of different colours and fabrics, folding letterpress tables, browned, leaves brittle and occasionally chipped at edges, original cloth, soiled and damp-stained, spine broken, Paris, 1891; and 2 later trade cards of coloured threads from Clark & Co. of Paisley, 8vo (4)
⁂ The Cassella dye factory, established in Frankfurt in 1828, was the world's largest producer of synthetic dyes by the turn of the century.
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