The Exeter cloth dispatch book, 1763-1765:

This book reproduces a newly discovered manuscript detailing the exports of Claude Passavant, a Swiss émigré merchant. Passavant's dispatch book comprises the most extensive surviving collection of Devon cloth with 2,475 surviving cloth samples. Thirteen chapters discuss the local and wider con...

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Weitere Verfasser: Gray, Todd 1958- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Woodbridge The Boydell Press 2021
Schriftenreihe:Devon and Cornwall Record Society 63
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Zusammenfassung:This book reproduces a newly discovered manuscript detailing the exports of Claude Passavant, a Swiss émigré merchant. Passavant's dispatch book comprises the most extensive surviving collection of Devon cloth with 2,475 surviving cloth samples. Thirteen chapters discuss the local and wider contexts of eighteenth-century cloth making. This study explores the quality, range, and vibrancy of cloth that lead to Exeter becoming an internationally renowned centre for the manufacture and trade of woollen cloth.
Beschreibung:XIII, 333 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9780901853639

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