Product Information
This book reproduces a newly discovered manuscript detailing the exports of Claude Passavant, a Swiss emigre 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.Product Identifiers
PublisherDevon & Cornwall Record Society
ISBN-139780901853639
eBay Product ID (ePID)23046652221
Product Key Features
Number of Pages352 Pages
Publication NameThe Exeter Cloth Dispatch Book, 1763-1765
LanguageEnglish
SubjectArchaeology
Publication Year2021
TypeTextbook
AuthorTodd Gray
SeriesDevon and Cornwall Record Society
Dimensions
Item Height240 mm
Item Width170 mm
Additional Product Features
EditorTodd Gray
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom