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Armstrong, Sir W G; Bell, I Lowthian; Taylor, John & Richardson, Dr.
The Industrial Resources of the District of the Three Northern Rivers, The Tyne, Wear, and Tees, including the Reports on the Local Manufactures, Read before the British Association, in 1863.
Publisher: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green & Andrew Reid, London & Newcastle upon Tyne;
Date of Publication: 1864
Stock Code: 5465
Second (and best) edition. Quarto, pp xlii, [2],361,[1], [4] advertisements. 36 illustrations including double-page frontispiece and folding geological sketch map in colour. Original deep pink decorative cloth with gilt titles to spine, gilt titles and decoration to upper board and matching decoration in blind to lower board. Black endpapers. Expertly re-backed. Spine tips and corners a litle rubbed; cloth toned & sunned. Two inch closed tear to mount of geological map and small nicks to fore-edge of pp., 327-338. A sound copy. Reports on coal mining, coke, metallurgy, chemical and ceramic manufacture, paper, tanning, ship buildng, engineering and locomotive production in North East England during the 1860s, giving a snapshot of the industrial resources and progress of the time. Expanded from the First Edition to include the carpet, hat and rope industries and improvements to the River Wear. Scarce. £250.00