History of the cotton manufacture in Great Britain : with a notice of its early history in the East, and in all the quarters of the globe : a description of the great mechanical inventions, which have caused its unexampled extension in Britain, and a view of the present state of the manufacture and the condition of the classes engaged in its several departments
An industrial history of British cotton manufacture written by Edward Baines and published in London in 1835 for manufacturers, political economists and general readers of the period's improvement literature. The plates are engraved elevations and side views of spinning jennies, mules, power looms and carding frames, drawn flat with fine hatching, exposed gear trains, spindles and threads shown as thin ruled lines against blank paper.
