Back to the Grindstone : Personal Recollections of the Sheffield Cutlery Industry
Rare and modern books
Housley, Herbert
The Hallamshire Press,
1998
Back to the Grindstone : Personal Recollections of the Sheffield Cutlery Industry
Rare and modern books
Housley, Herbert
The Hallamshire Press,
1998
12.50 €
(Hyde,
United Kingdom)
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1998
- ISBN
- 1874718288
- Place of printing
- Sheffield
- Author
- Housley, Herbert
- Publishers
- The Hallamshire Press
- Size
- 9.25 x 6.25 inches
- Edition
- First Edition
- Keyword
- Iron, Steel, Foundries, History, Biography
- Binding description
- Soft Cover
- Dust jacket
- False
- State of preservation
- Very Good
- Binding
- Softcover
- Inscribed
- False
- First edition
- True
Description
No marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to some corners, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, faint creasing to upper corner of last few pages and no bumping to corners. 174pp. Autobiography of Bert Housley, partner in the family cutlery manufacturing firm of H Housley & Sons of Sheffield. Includes much in general about cutlery manufacturing in Sheffield and the author's views on why Sheffield stopped being at the forefront of this industry. Scarce.
