£80
The China Clay Works in Cornwall & Devon of English China Clays Ltd Published by English China Clays Ltd, St Austell, Cornwall, England, printed by Richmond Hill Printing Works Ltd, Bournemouth. In original stiff patterned brown boards raised lettering on front cover, this work is limited to 1,000 copies only (it appears this is no.1), first printing, first edition, circa 1930. An exhaustive illustrated history documenting mangement, offices, departments, numerous clay pits, settling pits, mica drags, drying kilns and linhays, ground china stone mills, the engine power houses, water wheels, employees houses, transport, workshops and stores, shipping etc. frontispiece a coloured chart of the china clay, a very clean copy no marks bookplates in very good condition folio. Very scarce.
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