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DYNASTY OF IRON FOUNDERS

by Arthur Raistrick

Published by Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd.. 1st. 1953

Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper. B/w photos and illustrations. The Darbys and Coalbrookdale. xiii + 308 pages.

Covers unevenly faded. Contents very good. Wrapper chipped at edges and lightly browned to rear.

Stock no. 1205825

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Contents

  • PREFACE
  • Chapter
  • One - The Coalbrookdale Company - an outline
  • Two - Abraham Darby I, 1699-1708 - The Bristol Companies
  • Three - Coalbrookdale works, 1708-1717
  • Four - Richard Ford, 1717-1745. Abraham Darby II, 1732-1738
  • Five - Abraham Darby II, 1738-1763
  • Six - Richard Reynolds, 1763-1772. Abraham Darby III. 1768-1789
  • Seven - Furnace and Foundry, 1708-1807
  • Eight - The Steam Engine, 1722-1772
  • Nine - The Steam Engine, 1772-1805
  • Ten - Railways and canals, 1745-1800
  • Eleven - The Iron Bridge and other bridges, 1778-1863
  • Twelve - Richard Dearman, 1789-1803
  • Thirteen - Edmund Darby, 1803-1810. Barnard Dickinson, 1810-1827
  • Fourteen - Abraham Darby IV and Alfred Darby, 1827 - 1851
  • Fifteen - The mid century; the Great Exhibition 1851
  • Postscript
  • Appendices
  • Index

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