HEATON (H).: The Yorkshire Woollen and Worsted Industries. [From the Earliest Times up to the Industrial Revolution] , Clarendon Press, Oxford, 19208vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece map, and 3 diagrams and a full-page map in the text, endpapers browned, neat signature on front free endpaper; original rose cloth, gilt back, uncut, covers moderately worn and age-soiled else a good working copy. Published as vol.10 in the series Oxford Historical and Literary Studies, edited by Professors C.H. Firth and Walter Raleigh, this detailed standard reference has its origin in a thesis written in 1911 for the Honours School of History in the University of Leeds. The substance of the first three chapters was submitted for the MA degree (Leeds) and that of the greater part of the remainder for the degree of M.Com (Birmingham) in 1914. Since then the work as a whole has been largely rewritten and expanded. (See author's Preface). Scarce. (Book ref. 18585 ) £ 64.00 The payment methods accepted by the seller, Island Books , are shown in the right-hand column. |
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