A treatise on the better employment, and More Comfortable Support, of the Poor in Workhouses. Together with Some Observations on the Growth and Culture of Flax. With Divers New Inventions, neatly engraved on Copper, for the Improvement of the Linen Manufacture, of which The Importance and Advantages are considered and evinced. By William Bailey, Member of the Society for promoting Arts and Commerce.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bailey, William, fl. 1770.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linen--England.

Linen.

Almshouses--Great Britain.

Almshouses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([4],iii,[1],79,[1]p.,plates,tables )

Other Title:

Treatise on the better employment,

Place of Publication:

London : printed for, and sold by, the author, At the Corner of Castle Court in the Strand; and by R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, M.DCC.LVIII. [1758]

Notes:

Braces in title.

At bottom corner of title page preceded by square bracket: pr. 2s.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T53628.

OCLC:

642625353