Shena Mason Ed (11 results)

Cloth. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. 258 pps. Silver titles: sp. Frontis. Illust. w/ colour & b/w photos, prints, facsimile docs., maps, portraits & tables. Black cloth bds. Decorative endpapers. Interior leaves are clean and tight. Glossy exhibition catalogue honoring the pioneer Birmingham industrialist (1728-1809) and associate of James Watt. Includes chronology, Boulton family tree, historical essays, notes and references, bibliography & index. Extra postage due.…

1st edition, hardback, large 4to, 258pp, numerous illustrations, clean and tight, no inscriptions, Fine / Fine dustwrapper. still shrink-wrapped. ISBN: 0300143583.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Black hardcover with title in silver on spine. Condition: Good, with just a hint of shelfwear to covers. Very light cockling to text throughout. Binding sound, no inscriptipons. Dustjacket condition: Good, with light shelfwear and a couple of very small tears to head of spine of jacket and base of rear of jacket. 258pp. 404 illustrations, the majority in colour. This book was published to accompany the Matthew Boulton Bicentenary Exhibition "Selling what all the world desires" organised by Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery at the Gas Hall Exhibition Gallery from May to September 2009. The book explains how Boulton (1728-1809), a Birmingham "toy" maker producing buttons, buckles and silverware, went into business with James Watt and exported Boulton & Watt steam engines all over the world. Known to Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Erasmus Darwin, Josiah Wegwood and many others, Boulton was a fascinating man, Britain's leading entepreneur of the Enlightenment. NB: A heavy book, will require extra shipping charges if to be sent outside UK.…

Condition: New. Matthew Boulton was an 18th-century designer, inventor, and industrialist, a consummate businessman, and co-founder of the influential Lunar Society. This book explains how Boulton, a Birmingham 'toy'-maker producing buttons, buckles and silverware, went into business with James Watt and exported Boulton & Watt steam engines all over the world. Editor(s): Mason, Shena. Num Pages: 304 pages, 300 colour images + 50 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEMW; AKP; KJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 292 x 241 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1860. . 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. . . . .…

Condition: New.

Hard covers, dust jacket. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st edition. Published to mark an exhibition in the Gas Hall, Birmingham in 2009. Scarcely used. Weight: 1.0 Language: English.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New. Matthew Boulton was an 18th-century designer, inventor, and industrialist, a consummate businessman, and co-founder of the influential Lunar Society. This book explains how Boulton, a Birmingham 'toy'-maker producing buttons, buckles and silverware, went into business with James Watt and exported Boulton & Watt steam engines all over the world. Editor(s): Mason, Shena. Num Pages: 304 pages, 300 colour images + 50 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEMW; AKP; KJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 292 x 241 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1860. . 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Numerous photographic illustrations. 4to. Publisher's cloth, very good in pictorial dust wrapper, minimal wear; a handsomely produced monograph on Birminghams most famous son of the industrial revolution. A large and heavy book, will cost extra to post. xiii, 258pp. …

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.