Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on Dyeing and Callicoe Printing: Exhibiting the Processes in the French, German, English, and American Practice of Fixing Colours on Woollen, Cotton, Silk, and Linen
In this country two books have been published on the subject, one a thin duodecimo, by Asa Ellis of Connecticut, and another lately by Elijah Bemiss of New York State. They are both practical books, con taining processes manifestly 00pied from experience. Asa Ellis's book contains no theory, and his receipts can for the most part be depended on. That of Elijah Bemiss, although the first part is manifestly the work of a practical dyer, yet it is marked by such a total ignorance of chemical principles, and some of the re 'ceipt_s are so strange, that although a man who under stands the theory of dyeing may make a good use of some parts of it, the work is not of equal merit with those which have preceded it. Still it is a book worth having, the proportions are tolerably good, and suited to the present state of this country.
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