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Anthony S. Travis. Hebrew translation by Shlomo Zucker. Jewish National & University Library: P.O. Box 503, Jerusalem, Israel, 1993. 120 pp: 773 pp English; 47 pp Hebrew. Illus. 21.3 x 27.4 cm. $18.00 PB.
Sid Edelstein probably is known best to chemists as a prominent dye chemist, Chairman of the Dexter Chemical Corporation of New York, and founder of the American Chemical Society Division of the History of Chemistry's Dexter Award in the History of Chemistry. This profusely illustrated (80 pictures of woodcuts, title pages, manuscripts, advertisements, patterns, dye samples, labels, machinery, factories, price lists, and portraits), luxurious, oversized volume is an essay for an exhibition...