Industrial History from Duck Cottage Books

London: Longman, Green & Co, 1946. 2nd. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 67 8vo. Co-author W L Randell. Blue and buff paper covers, 27 pages, illustrations from photographs. Published for the British Council. Revised (larger format) edition of 1946. Condition notes: Covers chipped and worn, blank page possibly missing before title page, leaving some raggedness. Pages clean… Read more about this item

London: HMSO, 1963. First edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 293 8vo. Proceedings of a symposium held on19-21 December 1961 at the British Ceramic Association. Card covers, good quality paper which has aged well. Topics covered include pneumoconiosis in the pottery industry, asbestos dust, protective clothing for pottery workers and dust control and suppression. Condition notes: Government… Read more about this item

London: The White Lead Publicity Bureau, 1934. First edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 736 4to. Maroon cloth-covered boards, spine strip yellow-cream, tipped-in plates (roughly half colour, half black and white), 160 pages. Condition notes: Foxing to title page and verso, rear end papers and external page edges. Plates all in excellent condition.

London: Stubbs Directories Ltd, 1941. 63rd. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 4386 4to. Text block approximately 8 cm thick- a massive work, listing details of manufacturers and professional people of all sorts active in Great Britain or "the Dominions" in 1941. Some random subject headings: Hosiery Machine Mnfrs, Butchers' and Table Steel Mnfrs, Nature Cure Practitioners. Black cloth-covered… Read more about this item

London: Archibald Constable & Co, 1908. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 1066 8vo. Dark blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, blind stamped title to front board, 414 pages, illustrations from photographs and diagrams etc. Condition notes: Boards somewhat bumped, text block sound and clean. There are traces of a small label to the rear board.… Read more about this item

London: Charles Griffin, 1922. 2nd. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 1127 8vo. Revised edition; with a Foreword by Sir Boverton Redwood. Illustrations from photographs and with diagrams etc, including many fold-out plates. Maroon cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, 297 pages plus related advertisements at pp 299-308. Condition notes: Some wear to the boards, especially along joints,… Read more about this item

London: Charles Griffin, 1951. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 414 8vo. The first of a series of thee books by this author on the legal and practical aspects of storing inflammable and explosive substance. Maroon-coloured cloth-covered boards, 320 pages. Condition notes: Some wear to the boards along front joint, previous owner's name to front free end… Read more about this item

Gravesend: Gravesend and Dartford Reporter Ltd, 1933. First edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 462 8vo. Subtitle: History of Messrs. William Watkins, Ltd 1833-1933. Dark blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine and front board, illustrations from sketches and photographs, 215 pages. Condition notes: Wear to boards, especially along joints, age toning to end papers and to a… Read more about this item

London: Ward, Lock and Co. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 313 8vo. No author credited. Undated, but a gift inscription is dated 1893: "Jonathan Cadaway, On his Leaving School June 1893, With the best wishes of Richard Lowne (Organist, Thorpe Hamlet)" (my best reading for both names, neither absolutely clear). Red cloth-covered boards, red titles on gilt ground… Read more about this item

1925. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 168 12mo. Date from Introduction. Sub-title: "A book for Miners, Mine Officials, and all others interested in Mining". Grey cloth-covered card covers, 127 pages. The author was Senior Lecturer in Mining and Surveying for Galmorgan County Council. Ex-library (Warrwickshire Education Committee, Mining School Library). Condition notes: Covers rather worn, library labels etc… Read more about this item

Manchester UK: Frank Reddaway, 1906. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 525 8vo. Contains just what it says in the title; with many period illustrations, including a frontispiece illustrating Reddaway's mills at Setun, near Moscow, as well as numerous tables of data and "A Complete Series of Tests of Camel Brand and Various other Brands of Machine Belting" conducted between 1895… Read more about this item

New York: McGraw Hill, 1933. 3rd. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 316 12mo. The last edition before the death of the author. Maroon coloured cloth-covered boards (soft faux leather), gilt titles to spine, 590 pages. The individual items are arranged alphabetically and illustrated where appropriate with tables, line drawings/diagrams and very occasionally from photographs.. Condition notes: Ownership… Read more about this item

London: Effingham Wilson, 1924. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 391 8vo. A dictionary that includes names, many obsolete or little-used, of minerals, preparations, naturally-occurring substances or phenomena, alloys etc. Grey-green cloth-covered boards, black titles to spine and front board, three pages of publisher's advertisements to front and rear end papers, 153 pages followed by three pages… Read more about this item

London: Charles Griffin, 1927. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 343 8vo. Sub-title: "A handbook on the utilisation of coal, torbanite, cannel and oil shale". Maroon-coloured cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, blind-stamped decoration to front board, two plates, 146 pages. Condition notes: Very slight rubbing to corners of boards, otherwise in excellent condition.

London: Charles Griffin, 1956. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 339 8vo. Title continues- "and to the transport of carbon bisulphide and certain compressed gases". Maroon cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, 179 pages. Bibliographic note in pencil to first of Contents pages and to rear end paper. Condition notes: A crisp, clean copy.

London: Royal Institute of Chemistry, 1960. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 415 64vo. Review copy, with publisher's letter left laid in. Maroon cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine and front board, 170 pages. Intended "for easy reference in emergency". Condition notes: A clean, bright copy which seems not to have been used in any laboratory. … Read more about this item

London: English Universities Press, 1951. First edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 1083 8vo. Black cloth-covered boards, silver titles to spine and front board, 564 pages, illustrations from photographs and diagrams. A comprehensive account of coalmining as it was at the time. Condition notes: Boards rubbed, some blottchiness and marking to rear board, possible water damage (rippling) to the top… Read more about this item

London: The Caxton Publishing Company, 1949. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 1170 8vo. Red cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, 560 pages, red deckling to edges of text block, illustrations from photographs. Large octavo in size. Intended as a text for Welfare Officers. Condition notes: Boards bumped and rubbed, previous owner's name to front free end… Read more about this item

London: Newnes-Butterworths, 1979. 2nd. Hardback. Very Good/Very good. 643 8vo. Second edition, amended. Dark green dust jacket, orange cloth-covered boards, silver titles to spine, 366 pages. Condition notes: A little edge wear to the dust jacket.

London: HMSO, 1956. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 236 4to. Command paper 9672. Original blue paper covers, 178 pages plus fold-out tables. Condition notes: Covers curling at corners. Cancelled stamp of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research to front cover and of University of Warwick Library to verso of title page; otherwise unmarked.