Antique Book Titled: A Practical Treatise on Dying of Woollen, Cotton, and Skein Silk, the Manufacturing of Broadcloth and Cassimere...Sulphering Woollens, and Chemical Bleaching of Cottons. Author: Partridge, William. Binding: Hard Cover. Publishing Place: New York. Year: 1823. Large 12mo, full contemporary leather with a leather spine label, p. 288, with one folding table. A heavily worn copy, but essentially clean and sound. The boards show general moderate rubbing, dusting, and darkening; the tips are quite rubbed, and there are two small surface peels on the boards. The boards splay slightly at the top, and the joints are both starting though the book remains very soundly bound; the spine is quite dark, has a chip from the head, and lacks a one-inch section at the heel. There are two blanks at each end of the text, and all end sheets are a bit foxed and browned, and show a light damp mark. The sheets show some moderate scattered foxing and light staining, a few leaves have tiny marginal edge chips, and toward the rear of the book there is a light old tide mark in the upper corner margin. Condition: Good.