Letters to the Young on Progress in Pudsey during the Last Sixty Years by Joseph Lawson - 1887

Caliban Books, Firle, Sussex, 1887. Reprint. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Darkened red covers, plain spine, gilt lettering on the front, bumped corners and spine-ends, period gift note on front end-paper, title page is darkened with light foxing, short tear (appox 2cm) at upper edge of front end-paper, first gathering is partially detached, binding is otherwise sound, clean pages. Chapters are: The Old Time Roads, Buildings, Furniture etc; Scarcity of Coal, Light, Soap, Water, etc.; Baking, Brewing, Dress, Food etc.; Courtship and Love-Making; Old Time Weddings; What is the Chief Employment? The Trials and Difficulties of Hand-Loom Weavers; Burling and Burlers; Low State of Education; Superstition the Child of Ignorance; Manners, Customs, Sports and Pastimes; Theological Progress; Contributory Causes of Change and Progress in the Manufacture of Woollens; Power Looms and the Revolution they Effected; Fulneck; Tong; Progress in Music; The Hall of Freedom Project; Progress in the Future; Concluding Chapter. No dust-jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 50317011121..