Birmingham City Council/Yale University Press, Date: 2009,. /Dust Jacket Included. 2009. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0300143583 1st edition, hardback, large 4to, 258pp, numerous illustrations, clean and tight, no inscriptions, Fine / Fine dustwrapper. still shrink-wrapped. ISBN: 0300143583 . 2009. Birmingham City Council/Yale University Press, 2009, ISBN 0300143583 9780300143584 [GB]

Yale University Press 2009 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 304 p. Contains: Illustrations, color, Maps, Frontispiece.

ISBN10: 0300143583, ISBN13: 9780300143584, [publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven] Hardcover Hardcover. Matthew Boulton was an 18th-century designer, inventor, and industrialist, a consummate businessman, and co-founder of the influential Lunar Society. Now, on the bicentenary of his death, this book surveys his life and extraordinarily varied achievements. The book explains how Boulton, a Birmingham 'toy'-maker producing buttons, buckles, and silverware, went into business with James Watt and exported Boulton & Watt steam engines all over the world. Meanwhile his magnificent ormolu ornaments decorated aristocratic drawing rooms, and his determination to discourage counterfeiters led to a contract to manufacture British coinage and coins of other countries at his mint. Boulton was leader of the campaign to establish the Birmingham Assay Office (still the busiest in the country), and also at the heart of the Lunar Society, a group of prominent industrialists, natural philosophers, and intellectuals interested in scientific and social change. Known to Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Erasmus Darwin, Josiah Wedgwood, and many others, Boulton was a fascinating man, Britain's leading Enlightenment entrepreneur. Matthew Boulton was an 18th-century designer, inventor, and industrialist, a consummate businessman, and co-founder of the influential Lunar Society. This book explains how Boulton, a Birmingham 'toy'-maker producing buttons, ...

ISBN10: 0300143583, ISBN13: 9780300143584, [publisher: Yale University Press; Birmingham City Council, New Haven, London, Birmingham] Hardcover First Edition First edition, first printing. quarto hardback. 272 pages. Colour illustrated. Fine condition in Fine unclipped dust jacket. No inscriptions.
[Royal Leamington Spa, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2009]

Birmingham City Council / Yale U.P., Date: 2009. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. Fine/Fine. Published to mark an exhibition in the Gas Hall, Birmingham in 2009. Scarcely used. 2009. Birmingham City Council / Yale U.P. ISBN 0300143583 9780300143584 [GB]