Album of vividly coloured floral printed textile designs Missionaries com/view/article/9803

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First illustrated edition of the French adaptation by Pierre-Antoine de La Place (1707–1793) of Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko

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They remained in print through the century

Album of vividly coloured floral printed textile designs Missionaries com/view/article/9803Textile sample album with printed floral fabrics. Germany? Ca. 1860. Oblong 4 (29,5 x 22,5 cm.) album containing 31 fabric specimens mounted on 24 stiff card leaves, some larger samples folding. Contemporary half calf with marbled paper covered boards. An appealing nineteenth century textile sample album preserving a varied group of printed cotton fabrics with floral and botanical designs typical of European dress textiles in the third quarter of the