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Selling Silks: A Merchant's Sample Book 1764
Lesley Ellis Miller
In 1764, British Customs confiscated a book containing hundreds of silk samples of different qualities from French agents who were attempting to sell them illegally in London. The merchant's sample book acquired in 1972 by the V&A may be this very book, a fascinating record of the eighteenth-century French and English silk industries.
272 pages, 145 colour illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 20, 2014 |
| ISBN13 | 9781851777815 |
| Publishers | V & A Publishing |
| Pages | 271 |
| Dimensions | 317 × 237 × 27 mm · 1.74 kg |
| Language | English |
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