Colne Valley Cloth. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day. With illustrations by Harold Blackburn, and cover and endpaper designs by Barnett Freedman.

BARNETT FREEDMAN. Phyllis Bentley.

Published by The Huddersfield and District Woollen Export Group, Huddersfield, 1947

About this Item

First Edition (first printing) - printed at the Curwen Press. Tall 8vo. 70pp. Handsome decorated cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With Freedman endpaper decorations, a photographic frontispiece, various drawings in the text, several colour reproductions from clothier's pattern books and a multi-panel fold-out colour map. A tiny speckling of spotting to the top edge, else in fine state with non-price-clipped dust wrapper replicating the splendid cloth design, with two short tears, a touch of edge-chafing and a small area of loss from the head of the spine panel. An interesting and fairly uncommon account of the Colne Valley textile industry, which is hard to find in anything like this state. Seller Inventory # ARC92499

Bibliographic Details

Title: Colne Valley Cloth. From the Earliest Times ...

Publisher: The Huddersfield and District Woollen Export Group, Huddersfield

Publication Date: 1947

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Good

Edition: 1st Edition