Utica, N.Y.: William Williams, 1817. Comprehending a plain System of Directions, Applying to Those Arts and Other Branches Nearly Connected With Them in the Manufacture of Cotton and Woollen Goods; Including Many Useful Tables and Drafts, in Calculating and Forming Various Kinds and Patterns of Goods; Designed for the Improvement of Domestic Manufactures. First Edition. 204 p.: tables, 1 full-page engraving, patterns; 19 cm. (7½ inches). Full calf with six gilt-ruled spine compartments; gilt-tooled title on black leather spine label: Weaving & Dyeing. Errata slip attached to back fixed endpaper. On front free endpaper in an old hand: John Warners Book. Contains directions and patterns for weaving and dying wool and cotton; also contains a section of recipes, including that for gilt for the edges of books and paper. In Very Good- Condition: rubbed; one corner of leather spine label lacking; light soiling throughout; old ink stains on pp. 147-50, but text is legible; several tears, all without loss of text or pattern: 4½-cm. (2-inch) tear from fore-edge of pp. 86-87; small section lacking from lower edge of pp. 88-89; 2-cm. (1-inch) tear from fore-edge of pp. 88-89; 4-cm. (1½-inch) tear from lower edge of pp. 195-96 ; a solid copy.. First Edition. Very Good-.