Fabrics we are printing, and How we do it. [Cover title.]

[Fall River, Mass: American Printing Co., n.d., ca. 1905-1910?] First edition? OCLC records three copies of what seem to be the same Fall River, Massachusetts edition (Syracuse, Winterthur Museum, SMU). A 1920 edition with no place of publication specified was also published. Publisher's blue cloth titled in white. . Oblong quarto. . With color-illustrated title-page, fourteen illustrations of fabric swatches (ten in color), and seventeen black-and-white photo reproductions (machine shops, a dye house, printing rooms, etc.). Some wear to corners and a bit of smudging to cloth. Printed card with two mounted fabric swatches (from B.O. Case & Co.) laid in. A near fine copy of a scarce book. This illustrated promotional catalogue includes descriptions of the facilities and production process of the American Printing Company. The company was established in 1835 (as American Print Works) by Holder Borden as an offshoot of the Fall River Iron Works company, which had been established in 1821 by his father, Colonel Richard Borden. During its peak in the 1870s, the American Print Company was one of the most successful textile companies in the world. In large part due to the success of the company, Fall River, Massachusetts became the leading textile city in the United States. At the time the present book was published, the company employed six thousand workers. The company maintained its success into the 1910s but began to decline in the 1920s and closed its Fall River mills in 1934. (Inventory #: 17687)