The Exeter Cloth Dispatch Book, 1763-1765 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780901853639)

Winner of the Best Books on Devon's History: Academic Award from the Devon History Society

A richly illustrated exploration of the national and international importance of the early modern Exeter cloth trade.

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.

Author: Todd Gray
ISBN-10: 0901853631
ISBN-13: 9780901853639
Publisher: Devon & Cornwall Record Society
Language: English
Published: 02/19/2021
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.40lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.60w x 1.40d