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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: 6853
FIRST EDITION. Quarto, pp. xlii, [2], 307, [1] blank, [2] adverts, 8 catalogue. Double-page fold-out frontispiece and numerous illustrations of which 13 to fold-out plates and 3 in colour. Skilfully re-backed using original pebbled green cloth boards with spine laid-on. Gilt titles to spine and upper board with decoration in gilt to upper and in blind to lower board. Original binding lightly stained with bruised corners; new endpapers. Damp staining to lower edge pp. 1-163, mainly to margin; scattered light foxing, mainly to plates and catalogue. Single plate (table of prices of green copperas) is in facsimile. A Good copy. Reports on coal mining, coke, metallurgy, chemical and ceramic manufacture, paper, tanning, ship building, engineering and locomotive production in North East England during the 1860s, giving a snapshot of the industrial resources and progress of the time. Scarce £200.00