Author: French, Gilbert J.
Title: The Life and Times of Samuel Crompton. Inventor of the spinning machine called the Mule.
Description: London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co, 1859. xix[i], 293[1] pp including appendix, portrait frontis, folding music score and sample of Crompton's writting, occasional woodcuts within the pagination. Authors presentation copy. Original pebble grained green cloth with gilt lettering to spine, uncut. 20 cm x 14 cm. Cloth slightly soiled with random marks, wear with minor loss to spine head, light rubbing to corners, front free endpaper, half title page & portrait frontis loose, front board pullig but holding firm, contents lightly age browned.

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