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ISBN10: 0300143583, ISBN13: 9780300143584, [publisher: Birmingham City Council in association with Yale University Press, New Haven and London] Hardcover Black hardcover with title in silver on spine. Condition: Good, with just a hint of shelfwear to covers. Very light cockling to text throughout. Binding sound, no inscriptipons. Dustjacket condition: Good, with light shelfwear and a couple of very small tears to head of spine of jacket and base of rear of jacket. 258pp. 404 illustrations, the majority in colour. This book was published to accompany the Matthew Boulton Bicentenary Exhibition "Selling what all the world desires" organised by Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery at the Gas Hall Exhibition Gallery from May to September 2009. The book explains how Boulton (1728-1809), 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. Known to Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Erasmus Darwin, Josiah Wegwood and many others, Boulton was a fascinating man, Britain's leading entepreneur of the Enlightenment. NB: A heavy book, will require extra shipping charges if to be sent outside UK. [Sturminster Newton, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2009]
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, 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, 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, ...
New Haven and London: Birmingham City Council in association with Yale University Press, Date: 2009. Book. Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Black hardcover with title in silver on spine. Condition: Good, with just a hint of shelfwear to covers. Very light cockling to text throughout. Binding sound, no inscriptipons. Dustjacket condition: Good, with light shelfwear and a couple of very small tears to head of spine of jacket and base of rear of jacket. 258pp. 404 illustrations, the majority in colour. This book was published to accompany the Matthew Boulton Bicentenary Exhibition "Selling what all the world desires" organised by Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery at the Gas Hall Exhibition Gallery from May to September 2009. The book explains how Boulton (1728-1809), 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. Known to Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Erasmus Darwin, Josiah Wegwood and many others, Boulton was a fascinating man, Britain's leading entepreneur of the Enlightenment. NB: A heavy book, will require extra shipping charges if to be sent outside UK.. 2009. Birmingham City Council in association with Yale University Press ISBN 0300143583 9780300143584 [GB]
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