Iron and Steel in the Industrial Revolution

Manchester University Press Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1951 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, editor's binding, under editor's yellow printed dust-jacket grand In-8 1 vol. - 274 pages

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2nd edition, 1951 Contents, Chapitres : Contents, Preface, ix, Text, Appendices, 265 pages - The charcoal-iron industry on England - The discoveries of Abraham Darby and Benjamin Huntsman - The relations between James Watt, Matthew Boulton and the Wilkinsons - The inventions of Henry Cort - Overseas competition and commercial policy - The iron industry in peace and war - Combinations of capitalists - The ironworkers - The Ironmasters - Appendices : The method of producing iron at the end of seventeenth century - Some statistics of the supplies of iron in the early eighteenth century - The marketing of charcoal iron - Copies of minutes of meetings on ironmasters - A letter from Abiah Derby near fine copy, the dust-jacket is near fine, spine sun-faded, inside is near fine, inscribed on the endpapers and the page before the title-page, slightly-yellowing, unmarked and clean, private collection bookplate