MEMOIR OF A MECHANIC: Being a Sketch of the Life of Timothy Claxton, Written

by Himself. Together with Miscellaneous Papers by Timothy Claxton

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First edition

Pp. ii +vii+ 7 brief biography by Jim Lowden, plus Claxton's will +160+10 advertisements , text figures; pictorial stiff paper wrappers with flap folds; Lowden Publishing Co., Melbourne, 2006. First edition. The Mechanics Series: No. 1. *Timothy Claxton 1790-1848 founded the London Mechanical Institution in 1817. In 1823, after 3 years in Russia, he sailed to America, where he established the Boston Mechanics' Institute in 1826, before finally returning to England in 1836 and

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