Selling Silks: A Merchant's Sample Book 1764 by Lesley Ellis Miller

Selling Silks: A Merchant's Sample Book 1764

Lesley Ellis Miller

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In 1764, British customs confiscated a book containing hundreds of samples of different qualities of silks from French agents who were attempting to sell them illegally in London. This merchant's sample book was acquired in 1972 by the Victoria an...

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