Book Details
| Author: | Bowles-Daly, J.: |
| Title: | Glimpses of Irish Industries. |
| Published: | London: Ward and Downey, 1889. |
| Classification: | Catalogue 19 - Irish |
| Description: | First edition. 2 pp ads, xvi, 219 pp + 16 pp ads. An account of the state of Irish industries in the late 1800's with recommendations on how they could be improved. Contents: The Provision Trade (pigs); Railway Autocracy; Banking; Possible Industries (paper manufacture, dairy produce, mineral wealth, coal mining, Irish marble, Belleek China); Lace; Poplin; Woollens; Knitting, Spinning, Weaving, Embroidery; Afforesting and Fisheries. Text clean. Previous owner's neat inccription at top of title page and on ffep. Binding tight. Dark green cloth boards with gilt lettering on front board and spine. Top and bottom of spine rubbed. Overall condition VG. |
| Book Number: | #8239 |
| Price: | € 210.00 |
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