Life and times of Samuel Crompton / Gilbert J. French ; with an introduction by Stanley D. Chapman
1970, Second Edition. Bath : Adams & Dart. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #227243
Physical description: xv,xiv,299p : ill ; port ; 23cm. Notes: Facsimile reprint of the 2nd ed. of 1860. With an appendix of original documents, including a paper on the origin of spinning by rollers, read by Robert Cole, Esq., FRS., to the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Published in Somerset by Adams & Dart for Social Documents Ltd 1970. Subject: Crompton, Samuel (1753-1827) Inventor of the Spinning Mule. Biography - Miscellaneous. Inventors - Spinning - Spinning machinery - History - Great Britain. Textile industry. Technological change. Industrialization. Other names: Adams, Anthony. Chapman, Stanley D. Series: Documents of social history. Genre: Bibliography, Biography, Illustrated.
Price: €25.00