First edition. 8vo. ix, [3], 177, [1] pp. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket (ownership inscription of ‘T C Barker’ to front free endpaper, otherwise internally clean; some light shelf wear to jacket with a few tiny nicks to extremities, otherwise a very good copy indeed). London, Methuen and Co Ltd, 1967.
A collection of six essays on the causes of the industrial revolution in England, with contributions by the distinguished economic historians Ronald Max Hartwell, Phyllis Deane and Francois Crouzet, amongst others. From the library of the British social and economic historian Theodore Cardwell Barker (1923-2001), with his ownership inscription to the front free endpaper.
