Memoir Of Samuel Slater The Father Of American Manufactures Connected With A History Of The Rise

by Cotton George S White

$250 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Second ediotionA. Frontis. portrait, 2 folding plates and all others. 8 - 9 -448pp. 8vo. Later cloth. Very Good, some plates with toning. Howes W 355; Sabin 103385; Kress C.4284; AI #42449; Larson #461: This book is valuable because of its first-hand record of Slater's life and work and extensive quotations from his letters and other sources and because it reveals something of the process of contemporary thought in justifying manufacture from

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