1. Frédéric Fol, Guide du teinturier. Eugène Lacroix. Paris 1875, p.17. (15f edition, 1783). A preliminary version of this chapter will be partially published as: Agustí Nieto-Galan, “Science and Practice in the Organic Chemical Industry”, to appear in Robert Fox (ed.) La scienza dell’800. Vol VI-VII, (sez. F). Institute della Enciclopedia Italiana. Rome.
2. Leonard. Trengove, “Chemistry of the Royal Society in the Eighteenth Century - IV. Dyes”, Annals of Science, 26, 1970, 331–353, p. 331.
3. This kind of science-based historical narratives of the emergence of artificial dyestuffs can be found in: Robert E. Rose et al., “Growth of the Dyestuffs Industry: The Application of Science to Art”, Journal of Chemical Education, 3, 1926, 973–1007; Aaron J. Idhe, The Development of Modern Chemistry. Harper Row International Student Reprint. New York 1966. (le edition, 1964); William A. Campbell, The Chemical Industry. Longman. London 1971; Sidney M. Edelstein, Historical Notes on the Wet-Processing Industry. American Dyestuff Reporter. New York 1974; M.R. Fox, Dye-Makers of Great Britain, 1856–1976. ICI. Manchester 1987; Fred Aftalion, Histoire de la Chimie. Masson. Paris 1988.
4. Broader explanations of the substitution of natural dyestuffs by artificial colours can be found in works such as: Ernst Homburg, “The Influence of Demand on the Emergence of the Dye Industry. The Roles of Chemists and Colourists”, Journal of the Society of Dyers and Colourists, 99, 1983, 325–332; Anthony S. Travis, Willem J. Hornix, and Robert Bud (eds.) Organic Chemistry and High Technology, 18501950. Special issue of The British Journal for the History of Science, 25, March 1992; Anthony S. Travis, The Rainbow Makers. The Origins of the Synthetic Dyestuffs Industry in Western Europe. Lehigh University Press. Bethlehem 1993; Anthony S. Travis, “From Manchester to Massachusetts via Mulhouse: The Transatlantic Voyage of Aniline Black”, Technology and Culture, 35, 1994, 70–99; Anthony S. Travis, “Between broken root and artificial alizarin: textile arts and manufactures of madder”, History and Technology, 12, 1994, 1–22.
5. Anthony S. Travis, “Theory from Practice: Portraying the Constitution of Synthetic Dyestuffs in the 1860s”, in Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Mana Lüwy (eds.) The Invisible Industrialist. Manufactures and the Production of Scientific Knowledge. Macmillan. London 1998, 122–142, p. 122.