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Title: The early English cotton industry

Author: George W. Daniels

Author of introduction, etc.: George Unwin

Contributor: Samuel Crompton

Release date: February 26, 2023 [eBook #70140]

Language: English

Original publication: United Kingdom: Longmans Green & Co, 1920

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PUBLICATIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER

HISTORICAL SERIES

No. XXXVI

THE EARLY
ENGLISH COTTON INDUSTRY

Published by the University of Manchester at
THE UNIVERSITY PRESS (H. M. McKechnie, Secretary)
12 Lime Grove, Oxford Road, MANCHESTER

LONGMANS, GREEN & CO.
London: 39 Paternoster Row
New York: 443-449 Fourth Avenue and Thirtieth Street
Chicago: Prairie Avenue and Twenty-fifth Street
Bombay: 8 Hornby Road
Calcutta: 6 Old Court House Street
Madras: 167 Mount Road

Samuel Crompton

STATUE OF SAMUEL CROMPTON
NELSON SQUARE, BOLTON

On the base there is a representation of Hall-i’-th’-Wood
which can just be distinguished in the photograph

THE EARLY
ENGLISH COTTON INDUSTRY

WITH SOME UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF
SAMUEL CROMPTON

BY

GEORGE W. DANIELS, M.A.

SENIOR LECTURER IN ECONOMICS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER

INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER BY

GEORGE UNWIN, M.A.

PROFESSOR OF ECONOMIC HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER

MANCHESTER: AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS

12 LIME GROVE, OXFORD ROAD

LONGMANS, GREEN & CO.

LONDON, NEW YORK, BOMBAY, ETC.

1920

PUBLICATIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
No. CXXXIII