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SYMONS, Jelinger C[ookson]
Arts and artisans at home and abroad:with sketches of the progress of foreign manufactures.
1839 - 8vo., (4) + xii + 270*pp., including the half-title and initial advertisement leaf, original green cloth with original printed label (this soiled), uncut. A very good copy.
First edition. Goldsmiths 30827. Kress C.5007. Williams II, p.179.
wages, factories, employment, prices
  
Price : GBP£ 175
  
 

MARTINEAU, Harriet
The factory controversy;a warning against meddling legislation. … Issued by the National Association of Factory Occupiers, 13, Corporation Street, Manchester.
1855 - 8vo., viii + 50pp., margins a little dustmarked, well bound in late 20th century dark green half morocco over marbled boards, spine labelled and gilt. A very good copy.
First edition. Williams II, 203. Black 7546. Wheatley 39.
social issues, women authors, antiquarian, factories, labour, Charles Dickens
  
Price : GBP£ 600
  
 

[CARPENTER, William?]
The effects of machinery on manual labour, and on the distribution of the produce of industry.... Reprinted by permission, from Carpenter's Political Magazine.
n.d. [1831 or 1832?] - 8vo., 8pp., last page a little soiled with minor abrasions but no loss, in old brown paper wrappers. A good copy.
First separate edition. Apparently rare. OCLC locates 2 copies only (at Johns Hopkins + Duke). NSTC finds only a BL copy. Goldsmiths 26987. Not in Kress.
labour, industrial revolution
  
Price : GBP£ 250
  
 

[PORTER, George Richardson]
A treatise on the origin, progressive improvement, and present state, of the manufacture of porcelain and glass.
1832. - 8vo., engraved and printed titles, 50 text figures, xiv + 334 + (2)pp., original maroon cloth with printed spine label, spine faded, contemporary number '94' in ink below label. A very good uncut copy. 19th century armorial bookplate of Mary Napier Stuart.
First edition. One of the volumes in Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia. Goldsmiths 27352. Kress C.3273. Williams II, p.147.
industry, glass, porcelain, arts
  
Price : GBP£ 75
  
 

OWEN, Robert
Observations on the effect of the manufacturing system;with hints for the improvement of those parts of it which are most injurious to health and morals. Dedicated most respectfully to the British Legislature. ..... The second edition.
1817 - 8vo., 20pp., recently well bound in old-style quarter calf over marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt. A fine, large, copy, entirely uncut.
NLW 8. This edition not in Goldsmiths. Williams II, p.543. Harrison p.272. Kress B.7003.
Factory Acts, child labour, cotton mills
  
Price : GBP£ 1250
  
 

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