History of the Iron Trade: From the Earliest Records to the Present Period

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viii, 327 pp. "This work deals with the history of the iron trade from its early beginnings until about 1840. It covers a very wide area and discusses in some detail the trade in E ngland, Wales, Ireland, America, Spain, Scandinavia, Russia and France. Iron manufacture in England from 1830-1840--a very important period--is dealt with in considerable detail. The book has a number of valuable appendices containing statistics and other official documents which are essential source material for a study of iron mining and manufacture." Show more