This is a large French sample book dating to 1913-1914. There are notations with the names of various manufacturers alternating throughout the book. The fabrics range in size from 2" x 4" to the large full page (see the first photo.) 

Many years ago I purchased a collection of fabric samples that someone had saved in this antique book (below). The book pages are blank, perhaps it was meant to be a journal. The fabrics have been glued to heavy cards and inserted between the pages. Unfortunately, there is no writing on the cards or pages.

The fabrics date from the early 1800's to about 1860. Many of the fabrics are Delaines (cotton and wool), the others are cottons. Most of the dyes are still bright and unfaded. The fabrics appear to have been in the book many years as some of the pages have a reverse impression of the printed fabric which has been pressed against it for probably a century or more.