A comprehensive manual to the aniline dyes produced by the Badische Anilin- & Soda-Fabrik, including detailed instructions for dying yarns and printing fabrics. Original half morocco-grain cloth with green cloth sides embossed with a crocodile-skin pattern spine lettered and decorated in gilt joints cracked but sound covers slightly marked, with light wear to the corners and minor loss to the head and foot of the spine paper lightly toned, with occasional light foxing a few trifling signs of use overall a very good copy, with the wonderful fabric samples uniformly bright and in fine condition. Quarto, x (last blank), 534, xi (index) pages plus 2 plates (showing the company's German, French and Russian factories) and 20 'Pattern Sheets' with over 620 captioned mounted samples of dyed fabrics and threads. Aniline dyes had been pioneered by the original Chairman of BASF, Friedrich Englehorn (1821-1902) who had recognized as early as 1861 the possibility of producing a dye mixing fuchsin (magenta) and aniline a byproduct of coal tar. The finished fabric samples include satins, printed percales, indigo dyes, thread samples, wools, wool blends, silk blends, cottons, and the silk colour samples provide excellent examples of the results which produced the splendid embroidery silks of the early 20th-Century. This invaluable work was intended to provide a detailed description of the methods, dyes, and machinery for using the company's aniline colour dyes on cotton, wool, silk and other textiles. First edition of this scarce and enormous Victorian colour dye reference work and sample catalogued filled with 624 results of colour textile dyes and textile printing with BASF dyes.
Publisher's simulated half-chagreen over simulated crocodile skin patterned blue-green boards, gilt lettering stamped on spine (expertly rebacked w/ original spine laid back down, light uniform interior toning as usual), still VG copy. With 2 plates of birds-eye view of the BASF plants in Moscow, France & German, 20 plates w/ 624 tipped-in fabric, finished textiles, and thread samples tipped-in, all preserving their original tissue guards.
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