The Exeter Cloth Dispatch Book, 1763-1765 (Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 63)

ISBN 10: 0901853631 / ISBN 13: 9780901853639

Published by Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 2021

About this Item

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Exeter Cloth Dispatch Book, 1763-1765 (Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 63)
• Publisher: Devon and Cornwall Record Society
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0901853631
• ISBN 13: 9780901853639
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Winner of the Best Books on Devon's History: Academic Award from the Devon History Society

A richly illustrated exploration of the national and international importance of the early modern Exeter cloth trade.

This book reproduces a newly discovered manuscript detailing the exports of Claude Passavant, a Swiss émigré merchant. Passavant's dispatch book comprises the most extensive surviving collection of Devon cloth with 2,475 surviving cloth samples. Thirteen chapters discuss the local and wider contexts of eighteenth-century cloth making. This study explores the quality, range, and vibrancy of cloth that lead to Exeter becoming an internationally renowned centre for the manufacture and trade of woollen cloth.

About the Author

TODD GRAY MBE is Research Fellow at the University of Exeter and the author or editor of a number of volumes on Exeter and Devon including William Birchynshaw's Map of Exeter, 1743 and The Chronicle of Exeter, 1205-1722.