A compendious history of the cotton-manufacture; : with a disproval of the claim of Sir Richard Arkwright to the invention of its ingenious machinery. / By Richard Guest.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guest, Richard.

Contributor:

Pratt, Joseph., Printer.

Thomson, E., Bookseller.

Carpenters' Company Library Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

W. and W. Clark., Bookseller.

Longman, Hurst and Co., Bookseller.

G. & W.B. Whittaker., Bookseller.

Calvert, M. P., Illustrator.

Leech & Cheetham., Engraver.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arkwright, Richard, Sir, 1732-1792.

Arkwright, Richard.

Cotton growing--Great Britain.

Cotton growing.

Cotton manufacture.

Genre:

Publishers' catalogs.

Physical Description:

[2], 70, 3, [1] p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester [England]: : Printed by Joseph Pratt, Chapel Walks, and sold by E. Thomson, Market Street, and W. and W. Clarke, Market Place: ; [London] : Longman, Hurst & Co. and G. & W. B. Whittaker, London., 1823.

Notes:

Includes [12] engraved plates signed at foot: M.P. Calvert, delin. Leech & Cheetham sc.

Local Notes:

Title is held at Carpenters' Hall in the Library of the Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia. Access to the books is restricted and available to researchers only by permission requested in advance.

Carpenters' Company copy has accession number 4178; first recorded in 1857 Carpenters' Company Library inventory as no. 244 and in the 1857 Carpenters' Company Library Catalogue as no. 431.

Carpenters Company copy has 12 p. catalog for "Works recently published on the various branches of architecture ... by J. Taylor ..." bound at end.

OCLC:

226395051