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(SLATER). WHITE, GEORGE S. Memoir of Samuel Slater, the Father of American Manufactures. Connected with a History of the Rise and Progress of the Cotton Manufacture in England and America. With Remarks on the Moral Influence of Manufactories in the United States. Illustrated by Thirty Engravings. Philadelphia: 1836. 1st ed. 8vo. 448; 120 pp. The title overstates the number of plates actually included. Orig. cloth, crudely rebacked, with title portion of spine laid down. Text very good. $225.00

 

Howes W 355. Rinderknecht 42448. Sabin 103385. Includes the Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury...on the Cultivation, Manufacture, and Foreign Trade of Cotton, which appears only in the first edition.