Pocket manual for dyers and printers on the application of the coal tar colours
A 1903 pocket handbook of coal-tar dye recipes issued by the Hoechst firm Meister, Lucius & Brüning with its New York agent H.A. Metz & Co., written for working dyers and textile printers. Halftone photographs show mill interiors of dyeing and printing machinery, drying frames and factory exteriors, alongside line diagrams of vats, rollers and shafting in flat outline.
