Cotton Cloth Designing. HOLMES (James).
£125.00
Frontipiece portrait of the author and 41 coloured plates with 11 cloth samples.
First Edition. 8vo. [226 x 140 x 14 mm]. Bound in the orginal red cloth, the front cover and spine lettered in gilt, the endleaves with printed advertisements. (Lightly spotted and spine slightly faded).
Burnley: Lupton Bros., 1896.
A very good copy. With ink inscription: 'St Andrews Church Sunday School, Class I, Percy Davenport, Jan 1898'. James Holmes, M. Soc. Arts, was author of "Cotton Weaving Calculations" &c, the recipient of 1st Honours "Cotton Manufacture", at City and Guilds of London Institutes, and Lecturer in Weaving, Burnley, Nelson, and Accrington Technical Schools.
Stock no. ebc4248