Lives of Boulton and Watt. Principally from the original Soho mss. Comprising also a history of the invention and introduction of the steam engine
Samuel Smiles's 1865 biography of Matthew Boulton and James Watt, drawn from the Soho manuscripts and issued in Philadelphia by J. B. Lippincott for general readers interested in industry and invention. Wood engravings show workshops, cottages, mill yards and factory towns in loose crosshatched line, with small figures for scale; useful for industrial-landscape vignettes, chimney skylines and vernacular building studies.
