Howe & Stevens' Treatise Upon Dyeing and Scouring, as adapted to their family dye colors With Many Other Valuable Receipts.

Printed pink wraps, 16mo, 47pp with 30-color sample card tipped in at rear. Very Good with creasing and edgewear including a half-inch closed tear to the cover foredge, brief tidemark at the rear heel. 3 of the yarns are split at only a nub of the "Purple" remains, but copies retaining the sample card are very rare (OCLC notes 1 at AAS). Not in Lawrie.

An American how-to for the growing field of commercially available home dyes offered by Howe & Stevens, "Practical Chemists" in Boston. The booklet contains instructions on preparations, which dyes are colorfast, which should not be subjected to heavy soap suds, etc. It also offers aesthetic guidance, like "Hints related to color and complexion," which cites Chevreul's Harmony of Colors (40-41).