Chrome and Mordant Colours on Woollen Piece Goods
BRITISH DYETUFFS CORPORATION LTD. Chrome and Mordant Colours on Woollen Piece Goods. 26 pages, including 10 pp. of wool color samples. 4to, 220 x 165 mm, waxed cloth. Manchester, 1925.
The British dyestuffs industry was almost nonexistent prior to World War One, when Germany had a near monopoly on international dyestuffs production, and sold 80% of all dyes used in Britain. With the ensuing boycott of German good, domestic production became a necessity. British Dyes Ltd. was formed in July 1015 and then merged with Levinstein, the biggest British Dye maker, (founded by a German chemist, Ivan Levinstein) to form British Dyestuffs in 1919. The new company now controlled 87% of the British dye market. In 1926 it merged with 3 other companies to form Imperial Chemical Industries, one of Britain's largest companies for much of the 20th Century. Like most of the successors to the largest dyestuff producers, ICI went on to be a major pharmaceutical producer, (propofol being one of its more notable drugs) as well as a major munitions manufacurer during World War Two.
A clean little book, in a handsome gold embossed publisher's binding, which has minor discoloration on the back. Complete with all 104 color wool samples. Extrememly rare with OCLC listing only one copy at the British Library.
Item nr. 173267
Price:
$875.00