The manual of colours and dye wares : their properties, applications, valuation, impurities and sophistications : for the use of dyers, printers, drysalters, brokers, etc.
A trade manual on dyes and colouring matter by J. W. Slater, published in London in 1882 for dyers, printers, drysalters and brokers, with a Philadelphia library bookplate and a printed motto-and-torch device. The pictures are small, plain black-and-white engravings: a hand holding a flaming torch beside the Latin words Capio Lumen, and a library ownership label showing a seated allegorical woman with a book and an industrial town. A designer might take from them a simple emblem of light and knowledge, and a period label layout with curved lettering.
