Progrès de l'industrie des matières colorantes artificielles
A French chemistry treatise from 1876 by Adolphe Wurtz, published in Paris by G. Masson, documenting progress in synthetic dyestuffs and linked to the Vienna International Exhibition of 1873 for a scientific and industrial readership. Its pictures are plain framed fabric swatches in pink, crimson, brown and navy, each a mounted sample of dyed cloth with a printed caption beneath, offering a designer a record of how early synthetic dyes looked on woven textile.
