Baines, Thomas.
History of the Town and Commerce of Liverpool: and of the Rise of Manufacturing Industry in the Adjoining Counties
(Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, London, Liverpool, 1852).
Small library markings to spine and front endpaper. Frontispiece plan of Liverpool damaged and repaired with sellotape. Another plan, of Royalist Fortifications, torn in two but complete. A little rubbing / bumping to corners, but a very nice copy indeed, sound and tight. Hardback. Full leather nicely repaired. Gilt decoration front & back, raised gilt bands & titles to spine, all edges gilt. Ex library, but library markings minimal. Very good, attractive. xvi + 844 + 13pp. Order No. NSBK-A6861
Keywords: B000K40UBA, towns, cities, urban, city, commerce, commercial, manufacturing, manufacture, Liverpool, Merseyside, North West, England, Britain, British, English, counties, Lancashire, history, urbanisation, antiquarian, industry, industrial, Thomas Baines, Industrial Revolution, industrialisation, town, Mersey, Victorian, nineteenth century, Liverpool Docks, trade, exports, imports, economic, economy, ports, port
Price £60.00.
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Proud, E. Dorothea.
Welfare Work: Employers' Experiments for Improving Working Conditions in Factories
(G. Bell, 3rd edition, 1918).
Foreword by David Lloyd-George. Hardback. Ex-library with usual library stamps and stickers. some wear to edges, otherwise good. xx + 368pp. Order No. NSBK-C6760
Keywords: B000856JQQ, welfare, Great War, First World War, World War I, workers, working, factory system, factories, working conditions, women and work, working women, David Lloyd-George, social experiments, history, Catherine Helen Spence, E. Dorothea Proud, pay, wages, economic, economy, industry, industrial, twentieth century, antiquarian, factory legislation, factory labour, factory girls, labor
Price £19.50.
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Fang, Hsien-T'ing.
The Triumph of the Factory System in England:
(Porcupine Press, rpt., 1978).
Hardback. Very good+. 310pp. Order No. NSBK-A11524
Keywords: factory, factories, factory system, industry
Price £11.00.
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Eissler, M.
The Cyanide Process for the Extraction of Gold: And Its Practical Application on the Witwatersrand Gold Fields in South Africa
(Crosby Lockwood, 1895).
Hardback. Edges worn, some splitting internally at spine, front and back, otherwise good. 93 + 48 + 16pp. Order No. NSBK-A12665
Keywords: B0008A692U, cyanide, South Africa, Witwatersrand, gold, alchemical, alchemy, golden, extraction, gold mining
Price £32.00.
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Guinness, Alec.
My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor
(Hamish Hamilton, 1996).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly creased dustwrapper. x + 214pp. Order No. NSBK-A9009
Keywords: 0241136679, actors, acor, Alec Guiness, autobiography, life, life history, lives, life histories, theatre, stage, twentieth century, Britain, British, history, England, English
Price £6.00.
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Royal Historical Society, .
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: 2000
(CUP, 2000).
Sixth Series. Hardback. Fine. 443pp. Order No. NSBK-A10165
Keywords: 0521793521, history, Royal Historical Society, transactions, Britain, British, England, English
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Glaab, Charles N. and Larsen, Lawrence H.
Factories in the Valley: Neenah-Menasha, 1870-1915
(The State Historical Society of Wisc, 1969).
Hardback. Very good in faded and slightly soiled dustwrapper. ix + 293pp. Order No. NSBK-A13252
Keywords: 9780870201066, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, factories, Neenah, Menasha, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Wisconsin, manufacturing, Fox River Valley
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Bancks, .
Bancks's Manchester and Salford Directory: or Alphabetical list of the Merchants, Manufacturers and Principal Inhabitants With the Numbers as Affixed to Their Houses
(Neil Richardson, 1800 (1982)).
Booklet. Light soiling to covers, otherwise good. 64pp. Order No. NSBK-A13747
Keywords: 0950625787, Bancks, Neil Richardson, merchants, manufacturers, houses, Manchester, Salford, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, North West, booklet
Price £5.00.
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John, Angela V.
The Actors' Crucible: Port Talbot and the Making of Burton, Hopkins, Sheen and All the Others
(Parthian, 2015).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. xvi + 205pp. Order No. NSBK-D15434
Keywords: 9781910409947, Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins, Michael Sheen, Port Talbot, history, acting, drama, actors, Wales, Welsh, dramatic, social history
Price £22.00.
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Mayhew, Henry.
Mayhew's Characters:
(Spring Books, 1967).
Edited with a note on the English character by Peter Quennell. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper which is rather torn and tatty at edges. xix + 360pp. Order No. NSBK-A5010
Keywords: B0000CNF5P, Henry Mayhew, nineteenth century, Victorian, povery, poor, London, oral history, Britain, British, England, english, interviews, people, popular, working-class, working class, work, labor, labour, mayhew's characters, mayhew's, mayhew, characters
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