L'art de la teinture des laines, et des étoffes de laine, en grand et petit teint
Subtitle: Avec une instruction sur les déboüillis
By: Par M. Hellot, de l'Académie royale des sciences, & de la Société royale de Londres
Contributors: Woulfe, Peter, 1727?-1803; Gilpin, Joshua
Publisher: Chez la veuve Pissot, libraire, Quay de Conty, à la Croix d'Or.; Jean-Thomas Herissant, ruë S. Jacques, à S. Paul & à S. Hilaire.; Pissot, fils, Quay des Augustins, à la Sagesse.
Published: 1750
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 631
Subjects: Achiote; Dyes and dyeing; Indigo; Useful Plants; Cochineal; Wool
Other titles: Art de la teinture.
Notes: Includes references to dyestuffs made from lichens (greens), indigo (blues), cochineal (reds), barks from Brazil (browns), and achiote (which makes annatto for yellows)

Signatures: *¹² (*1, *2 versos blank) A-2B¹² 2C⁶

Engraved printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.

Catalogue of printed books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library, III: 239.

John Carter Brown Library copy quarter bound in contemporary mottled calf; rebacked.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Sophia Augusta Brown Fund.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Armorial bookplate of Peter Woulfe on front pastedown; Petrus Woulfe: ms. autograph on title page; Joshua Gilpin: ms. autograph on half-title page.