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"Ouvrage Indispensable A MM Les Fabricants, Directeurs de Manufactures, Dessineurs, Chef-D 'Atelier, Contre-Maitres, et un Mot a Toutes les Personnes qui Voulent Apprendre La Fabrication des Tissus, ou Suivre les Progres. Par une Societe de Manufacturiers, de Dessinatuers et de Practiciens". Falcot's summary of the weavers' art at that time is clearly intended as a source of information and inspiration for all people involved in any way in the weaving of fabrics. At the time there was an increasing use of Jacquard looms and an accelerating move from handlooms to powerlooms. Weavers of all kinds were keen to learn. Two volumes. Volume 1 has two Tomes, Premier and Second, bound together, each signed by Falcot; Volume 2, also signed by Falcot, also called Tome Second, comprises 131 Plates. Each volume is 10.5 x 9 inches. Volume 1,Tome Premier: pp half title, title, 2pp Avertissement des Auteurs, i-xiv Introduction, 2 blank pages, then 2-266pp text, including Table of Contents then half title and title to Tome Second, which itself contains 2-203pp text, a list of the plates in the Plate volume, 1-35pp "Dictionnaire Technologique, des noms et des termes usites en fabrique", and its own List of Contents. The volume of Plates contains the 131 engraved plates referred to in Volume 1 and listed in Tome Second. Some of the plates are folding and a few have a second colour. The plates show silkworms, weaving equipment and accessories, and methods and fabric designs and weave diagrams for Esquisses, Passementerie, Gazes, Rubans etc. Several of the Plates relate to Jacquard weaving. Ann Sutton in her preface to a reprint of the 1852 second edition said of Falcot's work: "a generous knowledge of the finest hours the hand-weaver in France, a country which was then world-renowned for its fine woven fabrics and the ingenuity of its textile processes." Little light scattered foxing. The contemporary paper covered boards with the appearance of tree calf are slightly worn at edges. Gilt decorated leather spines. Otherwise Very Good. Ex-library with just one stamp (The Textile Institute) to front free end paper of each Volume. Ex Libris plates of Prof.Thomas Fox in the front endpapers of each. His widow presented them to The Institute in 1918. Size: 10.5 x 8.5.
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