au bureau du Journal d'économie rurale et domestique

First edition, illustrated at the end of the volume with a folding plate comprising 5 figures.

Our copy is preserved in its original wrappers, with mustard-coloured temporary paper covers overlaid with modern marbled-paper wrappers with flaps. 

The sole edition, and very rare, of this important treatise in the history of textile cleaning.

Impressed by the results obtained before the Revolution in a laundry at Bercy, Chaptal, upon being appointed Minister of the Interior, had the question investigated by several chemists, including Bosc, Roard, Curaudeau, Bourgeron, de Layre and Cadet de Vaux, who were commissioned to test and assess this new...