WATTS, John. The facts of the cotton famine. London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co and Ireland & Co in Manchester, 1866.
8vo, pp. xii, 472. Large folding table, partly printed in colour, bound as a frontispiece. Nineteenth-century half calf, gilt panelled spine, green morocco label. Engraved armorial bookplate. A near-fine copy.
First edition. An important work written in response to the disastrous effects of the American civil war on Lancashire’s staple industry, by a prominent early socialist.
£250.00
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