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David Cock Mining Engineer, St Austell A treatise technical and practical on the nature, production and uses of china-clay with several useful tables and statistics and other information bearing on the subject. Published by Simpkin, Marshall and Co, London. 8vo. 151 pages plus 48 pages of advertisements inc 4 on pink paper, mostly firms located in Cornwall. A very good copy in original dark blue cloth, titled in gilt on the upper cover, neatly rebacked with the spine relaid. Author’s presentation copy slip tipped onto the front endpaper to R.Gill, dated 1880. First edition, but with no date, however the preface is dated January, 1st, 1880. the earliest extensive treaties on the then important cornish china clay industry.
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