History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain: With a Notice of Its Early History in the East, and in All the Quarters of the Globe, a Description of the Great Mechanical Inventions which Have Caused Its Unexampled Extension in Britain; and a View of the Present State of the Manufacture, and the Condition of the Classes Engaged in Its Several DepartmentsH. Fisher, R. Fisher, and P. Jackson, 1835 - 536 Seiten |
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