A practical treatise on dyeing and calico-printing : including the latest inventions and improvements : also a description of the origin, manufacture, uses, and chemical properties of the various animal, vegetable, and mineral substances employed in these arts : with an appendix comprising definitions of chemical terms, with tables of weights, measures, thermometers, hydrometers, &c.
A practical treatise on dyeing and calico-printing, written by Edward A. Parnell and Robert Macfarlane and published in New York by John Wiley in 1860, aimed at dyers and calico printers. Its plates are mechanical engravings of apparatus: a geared machine with rollers, a coiled pipe in a tank, a cistern with fittings, and a pressure vessel with tubing, drawn in clean black linework with lettered reference points.
