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HOUSLEY, HERBERT - Back to the Grindstone : Personal Recollections of the Sheffield Cutlery Industry

Title: Back to the Grindstone : Personal Recollections of the Sheffield Cutlery Industry
Description: Sheffield, The Hallamshire Press. 1998, First Edition. (ISBN: 1874718288) Soft Cover, 9.25 x 6.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to some corners, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, faint creasing to upper corner of last few pages and no bumping to corners. 174pp. Autobiography of Bert Housley, partner in the family cutlery manufacturing firm of H Housley & Sons of Sheffield. Includes much in general about cutlery manufacturing in Sheffield and the author's views on why Sheffield stopped being at the forefront of this industry. Scarce. Very Good.

Keywords: Iron, Steel, Foundries, History, Biography Social History Biography - Engineering / Science 1874718288

Price: GBP 12.50 = appr. US$ 17.85 Seller: Godley Books
- Book number: 013556

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