Sutton Ezra (2 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Trade paperback. Crease on front wrapper and spine, nicks in mid-spine, very good being fellow poet Daniel Hoffman's copy with his name penned inside front wrapper and his pen and pencil underlining on a few pages. A Spectrum Book, S-TC-29.

Five sample book with 109 cloth samples: 2 at 260 x 190 mm. containing 11 loose samples mounted on printed card [the green folder], and 51 samples [the red folder]; together with three smaller examples, each 175 x 125 mm. and containing 11, 11 and 25 samples mounted on card and displayed concertina style within a cloth wrap-around cover. Each album marked M.EMS followed by reference numbers which probably refer to thread count or density. Ezra Murad Sutton was active at the latter part of the 19th and early 20th century, for at least part of this period in partnership with M. D. de Picciotto, Maurice Altaras and Ezra I. Shalom, trading from Manchester as Picciotto, Shalom and Co. and in Cairo under his own name. By 1910 the partnership had been dissolved, Sutton acquiring all the property and assets from when he continued trading under his own name only. Egyptian cotton has long been recognised as of the highest quality owing its reputation to the climate of the Nile valley which produces long fibres allowing finer threads which can create a higher thread count and a softer and more luxurious feel.