Oak Knoll

Third enlarged edition. Minor wear to spine ends. Preliminary pages foxed, else a near fine copy. Very well-preserved. With 300 tipped-in colored specimens of paper each carefully described with formulas for their preparation. With major sections on the "behavior of the paper fibers during the process of dyeing," "Colour Fixing Mediums," the influence of water quality, inorganic dyes, organic dyes, coal tar colors, pulp mixture effect and dyeing to shake. Illustrations within the text.