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Seller's Description:
Fair. No Jacket. Hardcover. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Edge and corner worn, scuffed and scratched, some fraying in the top and base of the spine, corners are bumped and rubbed, spine is slightly rolled, former owner's name and a date in pencil on the second page, shelf worn, overall a clean used vintage copy! 371 unmarked and uncreased, historical and informative pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! "In its broadest sense, dyeing is the operation or series of operations by means of which uniform colour, of a more or less permanent character, is produced in the substance of objects. The term tinting is literally the same as dyeing, but is only applied to the production of very light or delicate shades. Staining has a similar meaning, but, on the large scale, the use of the term is almost entirely restricted to the production of coloured paper. In these processes the colour is presented to the object in a dissolved condition, and in being taken up permeates more or less uniformly the whole mass of the substance. In painting, the colour is imparted to the object by covering the surface with a coloured body or pigment, which does not necessarily penetrate into the substance; the coloured bodies employed for the purpose are usually insoluble, and are fixed by means of adhesives. In textile printing, the colour is produced on portions only of the material, and in such a manner as to produce a definite pattern, but in other respects printing is, in principle, closely allied to dyeing."----from the Introduction.
