Title page, table of contents and general index for Volume 1 (1876) of The Textile Colourist, a Manchester monthly journal on bleaching, printing, dyeing and finishing textile fabrics and the manufacture of colouring matters, edited by Charles O'Neill. The contents list articles on calico printing, aniline black, Turkey red, madder dyeing, indigo styles, linen bleaching, vanadium in dyeing, patent abridgments and historical pieces such as lists of British calico printers and medieval dyeing manuscripts. The detailed index covers subjects, people and patents, and is useful for locating material in the full volume.

First issue of The Textile Colourist, a Manchester journal on dyeing, printing, bleaching and finishing of textiles, dated January 1876. It opens with an editor's introduction, then summarizes technical papers on lime juice and argols, methylaniline purple, eosine in calico printing, and vacuum colour-straining apparatus. It also gives a long collection of printing colour recipes (many for blacks), a purple-red colouring matter from cyanogen, sulphur as a mordant for aniline green, British and foreign patent lists and abstracts, notes on the printing machine and caviar as an albumen substitute, and reviews of books on dyeing.

February 1876 issue of The Textile Colourist, a British trade journal on dyeing, calico printing and finishing. It opens with G. H. Underwood's detailed account of the indigo dip-blue styles of calico printing (vat arrangement and working, resist pastes, azure, navy, baft and Greek styles) with printed swatch illustrations. The rest covers lists of 1875-76 British and foreign patents, abstracts of specifications (steaming apparatus, indigo vats, aniline black, wool treatment), a note on Japan wax in sizing, a series of collected printing receipts (many blacks), wool dyeing with aniline colours, and a reader's letter.