Unknown Author. The Busy Hives Around Us: A Variety of Trips and Visits to the Mine, the Workshop and the Factory. Pub. Hogg and Sons. [1880]
pp.265 with plates and frontis. Signature cut away from ffep. Lightly coloured damp mark to frontis and title page o/w., contents in vg. condition. Bound in green boards with gilt lettering to spine. Showing some light wear at ends of spine. Overall a vg. copy.
Nothing to do with bees; this is a book which considers trade and manufacturing of the period. The cotton industry, mining around the world, glass works, publishing, railways and more are covered. The approach has a more British focus interwoven with insights into foreign trade and manufacturing.
£20.00 [Ref: 43469]