[ COTES, J. ]:

The Miner's Guide or Complete Miner.

Wirksworth, J. Cotes, 1810, 8vo, pp. xx, 150, with two illustrations and list of subscribers. Paper discoloured in places, but very good condition in modern quarter calf with marbled paper boards. Particlarly relates to lead mining in the High Peak of Derbyshire.

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Keywords: mining, Wirksworth, Peak District, Derbyshire, lead mining, lead mines,

ANON:

The Struggle for Supremacy: Being a Series of Chapters in the History of the Leblanc Alkali Industry in Great Britain

Liverpool, Walmsley, 1907, pp. 78, illustrated. Original cloth, a little wrinkling to back cover, but very good condition.

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Book number: 3444

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Keywords: Alkali, Leblanc,Widnes,Muspratt, Mond,

ASPIN, C:

James Hargreaves and the Spinning Jenny.

Helmshore,1964, first edition, pp.79, illustrated. Original cloth with part of front cover faded in a worn and frayed dust jacket. Couple of inscriptions inside. With a chapter by S.D.Chapman. Just a sound reference copy.

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Book number: 3467

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Keywords: Lancashire,James Hargreaves,cotton, textiles,cotton spinning,weaving,Oswaldtwistle,

ASPIN, Chris:

The Water-Spinners; a New Look at the Cotton Trade.

Helmshore Local History Society, 2003., pp. (8), 508, illustrated. Original limp card covers, Reading creases to spine, lightly used, but good, sound condition.

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Book number: 3256

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Keywords: isbn 0906881137,Helmshore,cotton trade,textiles,Arkwright,Samuel Crompton,cotton mills,factories, 0906881137

BANKS, A.G. and SCHOFIELD, R.B:

Brindley at Wet Earth Colliery: an Engineering Study.

Newton Abbot, David Charles,1968, pp.156,illustrated. The dust jacket has few marks and has been covered in sticky-back plastic to preserve it, the book is very good. With a presentation inscription signed by the two authors.

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Book number: 3349

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Keywords: Brindley,Duke of Bridgewater,mining,Wet Earth,Manchester,Clifton,Salford,collieries,

BAZLEY, Thomas:

A Lecture Upon Cotton as an Element of Industry.

London and Manchester, 1852. Contemporary full calf, gilt spine, 70 pages. Binding rubbed, but tight and sound. Presentation inscription from the author to the Earl of Wilton.

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Book number: 3528

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Keywords: Cotton,cotton industry,

BIRD, R.H. (editor):

The Mines of Grassington Moor & Wharfedale.

Northern Mine Research Society, 1980, A4,pp.95, folding plan of the principal veins and other illustrations. Name on tile-page, but a nice,clean copy in the original illustrated card covers. British Mining No.13.

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Book number: 1747

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Keywords: isbn 0901450162,mines,mining,Yorkshire,Grassington,Wharfedale,lead mining,metal mining, 0901450162

BOWES, Alderman I:

George Stephenson and M. Ferdinand de Lesseps

Salford, 1893, 62 page pamphlet. Original card covers a bit dusty and foxed, but sound condition. The full title is Rails and Waterways. George Stephenson and M. Ferdinand de Lesseps. The men and their work: The First Public Railway in the World and the Suez and Panama Canals. Ottley 2466.

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Book number: 2878

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Keywords: railways,Suez Canal,Panama Canal, de Lesseps,George Stephenson,Stockton and darlington railway,

CHAPMAN, Sydney J:

The Lancashire Cotton industry. A Study in Economic Development.

Manchester University Press,1904, first edition,pp.vii, 309. A few small marks to the front cover, head and tail of spine a bit bumped, but very sound in the original cloth. Stamp of the Free Trade Union on the front endpaper, but no other marks. Includes a useful and detailed bibliography.

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Book number: 2599

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Keywords: cotton,spinning,weaving,textiles,Lancashire,yarn,cloth,factories,factory,trade unions, factory legislation,

CORNWALL:

The Laws of the Stannaries of Cornwall: with Marginal Notes and References to Authorities to which are added the Several Acts of Parliament, Schedule of Fees, Resolutions of the Judges etc.

Truro, Joseph Tregoning, 1824, 8vo, pp. 136. Original boards, edges uncut. Spine worn and defective, boards dusty, edges and corners rubbed, but still tight and sound. Name erased from front endpaper, leaving the date, but contents good and clean.

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Book number: 2160

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Keywords: Cornwall,mining, tin mining, stannaries, stannary, industrial history, metal mining,

DANIELS, George W. and UNWIN, George:

The Early English Cotton Industry, With Some Unpublished Letters of Samuel Crompton

Manchester University Press, 1920. First edition. Also issued in a cloth binding, this is the issue in paper covers. Inevitably there is some wear to the spine and there is some foxing, but still the book in sound condition. A newspaper obituary of Daniels is pasted inside the front cover.

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Book number: 3464

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Keywords: cotton industry, industial evolution,factories,cotton mills,

DICKINSON, H. W:

John Wilkinson, Ironmaster.

Hume Kitchin, Ulverston, 1914, 8vo, pp. 60, (5), with 14 illustrations. Original cloth, a little faded, but very good, sound condition. Scarce.

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Keywords: John Wilkinson, Ulverston, ironfounder ironmaster foundries pig iron cast iron Coalbrookdale

DURY, Georgina:

Chronicles of Families Connected with Kirkstall Forge.

Privately Printed, 1929. Two volumes in one, 4to, pp. ix,196,160 plus pedigrees. Printed from typescript and finely bound in full vellum. Reproduced and presented by Bernard, Hugh and Basil Butler. Presumably one of only a small number printed. Very nice condition.

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Book number: 3530

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Keywords: Leeds,Kirkstall Foundry,Yorkshire, Butler,

FARRER, Katherine Euphemia (editor):

The Letters (and Correspondence) of Josiah Wedgwood 1762-1795.

Didsbury, E.J.Morten and the Wedgwood Museum, (1973). three volumes, reprinted from the original edition of 1903-1906, Three volumes, pp.vii, 388, 605, 312. The books are in very good condition, but in well-worn creased and chipped dust jackets which are in loose protective sleeves. Printed as an appendix to vol. 3 is Bentley's pamphlet on Inland Navigation. Recent owner's bookplates inside.

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Book number: 3450

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Keywords: Josiah Wedgwood,pottery,Staffordshire,Industrial History,Industrial Revolution,Potteries,letters,

GALLOWAY, Robert L:

Annals of Coal Mining and the Coal Trade; The Invention of the Steam Engine and the Origin of the Railway

Colliery Guardian, 1898, two volume set, pp. xii, 533, xv, 409. Original maroon cloth, spines faded, else a very good and clean set of the original edition.

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Book number: 3119

Catalogue: Industrial History

Keywords: coal mining,coal trade,mines,mine explosions,