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The Woollen Industry of South-West England
Bath: Adams & Dart, 1971. First Edition. A near-fine copy in a clean,complete dustwrapper with two closed tears each about one inch long. 214pp. 55 plates. This is a history of the wool- textile industry in the west of England. It includes a gazetteer describing the main industrial monuments left by the industry, a glossary of textile terms and a bibliography. (Book ref. 711) £18.00
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The Leeds Woollen Industry 1780 - 1820
Leeds: The Thoresby Society, 1931. Cloth Cover. Very Good/No Dustwrapper. 8vo Publication for the Thoresby Society, vol. 32. 343 clean unmarked pages including an index & glossary illustrated with 12 plates including the frontis & a foldout pedigree of the Gott family. (Book ref. 039834) £50.00
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The Yorkshire Woollen and Worsted Industries. [From the Earliest Times up to the Industrial Revolution]
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1920 8vo., 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
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WILTSHIRE AND SOMERSET WOOLLEN MILLS.
Pasold Research Fund Ltd, Edington: 1976. Illusts, folding plan, 266pp, original cloth, few small tears to dustwrapper. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include WEST COUNTRY - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ---- (Book ref. UK72-3490) £30.00
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THE WOOLLEN INDUSTRY OF SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND.
First edition, Adams and Dart, Bath: 1971. With 55 illustrations, x + 214pp, foot of spine of dustwrapper slightly chipped. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include WEST COUNTRY - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) - --- (Book ref. UK72-3463) £25.00
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WOOL AND WATER. Bradford-on-Avon and the River Frome.
Moonraker Press, Bradford-on-Avon: 1975. With 24 illusts, 66pp, laminated boards head of spine slightly snagged. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include WILTSHIRE - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) - --- (Book ref. UK72-2827) £15.00
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THE TROWBRIDGE WOOLLEN INDUSTRY As Illustrated by The Stock Books of John and Thomas Clark 1804 - 1824.
Wiltshire Records Branch Volume 6. Devizes: 1951. With 2 plates, xxxv + 249pp, original cloth. Impression of 350 Copies. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include WILTSHIRE - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ---- (Book ref. UK72-2670) £20.00
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THE WOOLLEN MANUFACTURE AT WELLINGTON Somerset. Compiled from the Records of an Old Family Business.
Arthur L. Humphries, London: 1914. With 13 plates, viii + 121pp, roy 8vo, untrimmed in the original buckram, spine slightly darkened. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include SOMERSET - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ---- (Book ref. UK72-2310) £95.00
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TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY in Humble obedience to your Majesty's Commands signified to me by The Right Honourable George John Earl Spencer.... referring to me the annexed Petition of Isaac Sanford of the City of Gloucester Civil Engineer and Stephen Price of Stroud Civil Engineer to consider thereof... which Petition sets forth that the Petitioners.... have found out and invented a new improvement of method to raise a Nap or Pile on Woollen Cotton and all other Cloth....
1806. Document which would have accompanied the Petition, in MS on 3 pages small folio, signed by Samuel Romilly. Folds, small piece torn from top corner of second page, affecting 3 letters of one word, traces of mounting on blank verso. The letter recommends that a patent be granted, and that the petitioners should cause a complete description of their invention to be inrolled. George John Spencer was Secretary of State for 1806 only. Paper watermarked 1801. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include GLOUCESTERSHIRE [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] --- (Book ref. UK29-933) £60.00
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The History of Water Power in Ulster.
Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1969. 8vo, 299pp, 4 monochrome plates, 5 text figures, 5 maps, appendices, bibliography, blue boards, gilt, d-j. A near fine copy. (Book ref. RHB7848) £16.00
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The History of Water Power in Ulster.
Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1969. 8vo, 299pp, 4 monochrome plates, 5 text figures, 5 maps, appendices, bibliography, blue boards, gilt, d-j. A near fine copy. (Book ref. RHB7311) £16.00
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The Woollen Industry of South-West England.
Bath: Adams & Dart, 1971. Large 8vo, x+214pp, 55 monochrome illustrations, glossary and bibliography, cream boards, gilt, d-j. A fine copy. (Book ref. RHB7253) £22.00
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The Tweedmakers: A History of the Scottish Fancy Woolen Industry 1600-1914.
Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1973. 8vo, 240pp, 9 monochrome plates, 19 tables, 2 maps, appendix, glossary and bibliography, cream boards, gilt, d-j. A near fine copy in like d-j. (Book ref. RHB7094) £18.00
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The History of Water Power in Ulster.
Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1969. 8vo, 299pp, 4 monochrome plates, 5 text figures, 5 maps, appendices, bibliography, blue boards, gilt, d-j. A near fine copy. (Book ref. RHB6966) £16.00
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A History of Caernarvonshire 1284-1900.
Wrexham: Bridge Books, 1990. 8vo, 438pp, map endpapers, blue boards, gilt, d-j. A fine copy in like d-j. (Book ref. RHB6786) £18.00
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The Welsh Woolen Industry.
Cardiff: National Museum of Wales/Welsh Folk Museum, 1969. 8vo, xviii+410pp, 74 monochrome photographicx plates, 27 text figures, appendices and bibliography, grey cloth, gilt, d-j. A very good copy in a very slightly chipped d-j. A substantial study. (Book ref. RHB6534) £21.00
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The Tweedmakers: A History Of The Scottish Fancy Woollen Industry. 1600-1914.
1973, D&C. 8vo, 240pp, photos, tables, graphs. DW. Fine copy. The first comprehensive account of the tweed industry in Scotland. (Book ref. RHB0614) £18.00
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The Batsford Guide To The Industrial Archaeology Of Central Southern England
1980, Batsford. 8vo, 208pp, photos, maps. DW. Fine copy. Covers Somerset, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Bristol. Each county is given about 6pp of introduction which is followed by a gazetteer listing all notable towns and villages with a short description of them and their places of interest. (Book ref. RHB0601) £15.00
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State Corporatism And Proto-Industry
Cambridge University Press, 1997 [Cambridge Studies In Population, Economy And Society In Past Time] 8vo, xx, 513pp, maps, tables, figures, red cloth [very good], d/w [good/very good]. Subtitle: "The Wurttemberg Black Forest, 1580-1797". (Book ref. 5348) £25.00
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The Tweedmakers, a History of the Scottish Fancy Woollen Industry, 1600 - 1914
Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1973. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 0-7153-5973-8 A good hbk copy with d/w. 8vo. (Book ref. 94553) £7.00
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