A complete dictionary of dry goods and history of silk, linen, wool and other fibrous substances

About this book

Hard cover. Designed without dustjacket. Cloth boards with paisely exterior page edges. Book includes an appendix which contains a lengthy treatise on "window trimming" Nice full-page black and white photographs show late Victorian window treatments and examples of displays in a dry goods store. Front section offers an alphabetical listing of terminology with lengthy definitions.