The history of silk, cotton, linen, wool, and other fibrous substances
Subtitle: including observations on spinning, dyeing, and weaving : also an account of the pastoral life of the ancients, their social state and attainments in the domestic arts : with appendices on Pliny's Natural history, on the origin and manufacture of linen and cotton paper, on felting, netting, &c., deduced from copious and authentic sources
Publisher: Harper & Brothers
Published: 1845
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
Subjects: Textile fabrics
Notes: Ascribed to Gilroy in Halkett and Laing.

Bookplate of C.B. Farwell.