Selling silks a merchant's sample book 1764
"In 1764, British Customs confiscated a book containing hundreds of silk samples of different qualities from French agents who were attempting to sell them illegally in London. The merchant's sample book acquired in 1972 by the V & A may be this very book, a fascinating record of the e...
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V&A Publishing,
[2014]
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Silk designs of the eighteenth century in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London with a complete catalogue