Life Times Samuel Crompton Introduction by French Gilbert (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. pp.xv + pp.xiv, 299 pages, a very good plus hardback in a very good plus dust-jacket (price-clipped).

Hardback. Condition: vgc/fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. seems unread vgc DW.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 299 p.; 23 cm. Subjects: Crompton, Samuel; Crompton, Samuel 1753-1827; Spinning; Inventors Great Britain ; Biography; Spinning Great Britain History; Spinning machinery Great Britain. 1 Kg.

"Documents of Social History Series." 8vo. xv[i], xiv[ii], 299[1]pp, frontis, 4 plates, text illustration. Original cream cloth gilt, glassine-protected lightly chipped d/w.

Second Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: xv,xiv,299p : ill ; port ; 23cm. Notes: Facsimile reprint of the 2nd ed. of 1860. With an appendix of original documents, including a paper on the origin of spinning by rollers, read by Robert Cole, Esq., FRS., to the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Published in Somerset by Adams & Dart for Social Documents Ltd 1970. Subject: Crompton, Samuel (1753-1827) Inventor of the Spinning Mule. Biography - Miscellaneous. Inventors - Spinning - Spinning machinery - History - Great Britain. Textile industry. Technological change. Industrialization. Other names: Adams, Anthony. Chapman, Stanley D. Series: Documents of social history. Genre: Bibliography, Biography, Illustrated. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Published 1970 fine hardback in a near fine dust wrapper, corners and edges lightly rubbed. No inscription. 299 pages. Appendix. Illustrations.