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Murphy Samuel
Grey Gold. Men Mining and Metallurgy at the Greenside Lead Mine in Cumbria, England 1825-1962.
Publisher: Moiety, Tanworth-in-Arden;
Date of Publication: 1996
Stock Code: 10325
First Edition. Large octavo, pp. [4], v, [1], 481, [1]. Black and white illustrations, maps, plans, and diagrams. Bound in grey cloth with silver spine titles. With the original unclipped black and orange pictorial dust-jacket. Slightly creased to spine-tips of cloth and dust-jacket. Small gold printed ownership label to front paste-down. A Near Fine copy in a Near Fine dust-jacket. The story of the most successful lead mine in the Lake District drawn from archival documents, field surveys and oral histories from the people who worked there. Scarce. £150.00