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The family dyer and scourer : being a complete treatise on the arts of dyeing and cleaning every article of dress, bed and window furniture, silks, bonnets, feathers, &c. whether made of flax, silk, cotton, wool, or hair : also carpets, counterpanes & hearth-rugs : ensuring a saving of eighty per cent / by William Tucker, dyer and scourer in the metropolis.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - E.F. Smith Collection TP909 .T8 1830
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tucker, William (Dyer), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dyes and dyeing.
- Cleaning.
- Genre:
- Publishers' advertisements.
- Penn Provenance:
- Greenberg, Arthur (former owner) (Smith copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, [2], 26-180 pages : 1 illustration ; 18 cm
- Edition:
- From the 4th London edition.
- Distribution:
- Philadelphia : Sold by J. Grigg ; New York : G. & C. & H. Carvill : and Collins & Hannay ; Boston : Carter, Hendee & Babcock ; Baltimore : W. & J. Neal ; Washington : and Thompson & Homans.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : E.L. Carey and A. Hart, [approximately 1830]
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Smith copy purchased for the Penn Libraries from the Arthur Greenberg collection sold by John McInnis Auctioneers (Amesbury, Mass.) on 13 December 2024 (sale 299, lot 1143).
- Smith copy has publisher's advertisement bound in at beginning of volume.
- OCLC:
- 675150
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