Die Wollfarbstoffe der Farbenfabriken
Die Wollfarbstoffe der Farbenfabriken. 32 pages, with 23 additional pages of color wool yarn samples. 8vo., 206 x 140 mm., original publisher's embossed boards. Elberfeld, Friedrich Bayer & Co. 1905.
A beautuful little book, complete with 531 brightly colored wool yarn samples from Bayer and only the slightest of edgewear. Pages are toned with a hint of foxing inside the covers. A pink label is pasted inside the front cover reading "D.R.G.M. 261741." D.R.G.M. or Deutsche Reichs Gebrauchsmuster is the German patent registration mark, used from 1892 until the 1950's. Although ultinatly more famous as a pharmaceutical company, Bayer's largest division was originally its chemical dyestuffs. This handsome little book, published only six years after Bayer's launch of Aspirin, hails from the era when Bayer was still the global leader in colour dyes and is a teastament to teh broad spectrum of colours it was producing. In 1925 Bayer would join with its other German leaders in the international dyestuff markets to form the ill fated conglomerate, I.G. Farben.
Unique, with OCLC listing only one copy each of the1908 edition, both of which is slightly longer.
Item nr. 173223
Price:
$975.00