THE ROYAL JUBILEE EXHIBITION NUMBER OF THE TEXTILE MANUFACTURER

 

(EXHIBITIONS-MANCHESTER-ROYAL JUBILEE, 1887)  THE ROYAL JUBILEE EXHIBITION NUMBER OF THE TEXTILE MANUFACTURER.                          

Manchester: Emmott & Co., Supplement, August 15, 1887. Folio. Publisher's blue gilt decorated full-morocco, all edges gilt, lined in silk, bound with original blue printed wrappers. (xxcii), (60), folding plate, pages 339-476, (60) pages, 26 plates, many folding.

A rare book not recorded as a separate work on OCLC -- a special publication "Supplement" for the monthly periodical The Textile Manufacturer.  The Supplement features the textile manufacturers contributions at the 1887 Royal Jubilee Exhibition held in Manchester.  The first 72 pages and the last 60 pages are filled with advertisements on every aspect of the textile industry especially manufacture and sale of the heavy machinery involved.  The supplement goes from pages 339 to 476 and features most of the state-of-the-art machinery in the industry.  The full page and double page plates feature respective textile manufacturers displaying at the exhibition showing examples of their heavy machinery with workers producing textiles.  Many of the plates also show sections of their public displays in the show--examples of Victorian merchandising.  With special index of the companies displaying.  Some wear to extremities of spine and edges of binding, else very good.

 

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