Ratcliff, CarterMareMagnum
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Slight marking. Light edge wear to cover. 8 3/8"w x 11"h. 130 pages. Sewn binding. Printed on heavy paper stock.
Dr Kitson Clark describes the expansion and structural change of society in Great Britain under the impact of the population explosion, the Industrial Revolution and the 'liberal revolution'. With Index. 188 pages. Dust jacket price clipped, with slight browning. Inscription by previous owner on front free endpaper.
Signed C Edmondson (maybe the author's son) to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked maroon boards, very clear gilt lettering to spine, slight softening to spine ends, light foxing to end papers and no bumping to corners. 295pp. A distillation of the author's thirty years of experience of worsted drawing and spinning providing the practical advice designed to assist the men responsible for the running of worsted machinery. It deals with the Bradford or 'Open' system. Illustrated. Scarce in the UK. A number of extracts are tucked in at the front - wool preparation advice from the Textile Mercury, a two-page flyer advertising the book, a review of the book in a Leeds newspaper cutting and the remains of the book's dust jacket.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. Very clean very tight pages with slightly dusty very slightly foxed unmarked boards, dusty and slightly foxed page edges and no bumping to corners. 400pp. The history of the manufacture of Phosphorus, published by Albright & Wilson, one of the key firms involved in this process
