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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tucker, William (Dyer), author.

Contributor:

Grigg, John, 1792-1864, bookseller.

Carey & Hart, publisher.

G. & C. & H. Carvill (Firm), bookseller.

Collins & Hannay, bookseller.

Carter, Hendee & Babcock, bookseller.

W. & J. Neal (Firm), bookseller.

Thompson & Homans, bookseller.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

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