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The Exeter Cloth Dispatch Book, 1763-1765

The Exeter Cloth Dispatch Book, 1763-1765

Hardcover

Series: Devon and Cornwall Record Society, Book 63

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ISBN10: 0901853631
ISBN13: 9780901853639
Publisher: Devon & Cornwall Record Soc
Published: Feb 19 2021
Pages: 352
Weight: 2.40
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.60 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
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.

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