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Book Condition: Used VG. (bumping & creasing to some upper & lower corner edges. creasing to spine ends. some marks & smudges to title pg; indentatio
ISBN: 0300143583 / 9780300143584
Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB

United States
About Item: New Haven / London: Birmingham City Council / Yale University Press, 2009. Hardcover. VG. (bumping & creasing to some upper & lower corner edges. creasing to spine ends. some marks & smudges to title pg; indentation to index pgs 253-258. pgs clean & bright. dustjacket has scratches & scuffs; rubbing to corners; creasing to spine edges). black boards w/ silver spine printing. illustrated pastedowns & endpapers. 258 pgs w/ color & bw illustrations. glossy black & illustrated dustjacket w/ white printing. Matthew Boulton was an 18th-century designer, inventor, and industrialist, a consummate businessman, and co-founder of the influential Lunar Society. Now, on the bicentenary of his death, this book surveys his life and extraordinarily varied achievements. The book explains how Boulton, a Birmingham ‘toy'-maker producing buttons, buckles, and silverware, went into business with James Watt and exported Boulton & Watt steam engines all over the world. Meanwhile his magnificent ormolu ornaments… Read More
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