The Exeter Cloth Dispatch Book, 1763-1765: 63 (Devon and Cornwall Record Society) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0901853631 ISBN 13: 9780901853639

Publisher: Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 2021

Synopsis

Winner of the Best Books on Devon's History: Academic Award from the Devon History Society A richly illustrated exploration of the national and international importance of the early modern Exeter cloth trade. This book reproduces a newly discovered manuscript detailing the exports of Claude Passavant, a Swiss émigré merchant. Passavant's dispatch book comprises the most extensive surviving collection of Devon cloth with 2,475 surviving cloth samples. Thirteen chapters discuss the local and wider contexts of eighteenth-century cloth making. This study explores the quality, range, and vibrancy of cloth that lead to Exeter becoming an internationally renowned centre for the manufacture and trade of woollen cloth.

About this title

About the Author

TODD GRAY MBE is Research Fellow at the University of Exeter and the author or editor of a number of volumes on Exeter and Devon including William Birchynshaw's Map of Exeter, 1743 and The Chronicle of Exeter, 1205-1722.

Edition details

• Publisher: Devon and Cornwall Record Society
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0901853631
• ISBN 13: 9780901853639
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Gray Todd