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Hardcover w/DJ. Condizione: Used-Very Good/Used-Very Good. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Used-Very Good/Used-Very Good. (2009). . Hardcover w/DJ. 4to., 258 pp. . Color Photographs (illustratore).

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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. New Haven, Birmingham City Council in association with Yale University Press, 2009. Large quarto, [xiv], 258 pagesextensively illustrated in colour. Papered boards; a fine copy with the near-fine dustwrapper (slightly creased). A catalogue published to accompany an exhibition held at the Gas Hall Exhibition Gallery from May to September 2009.…

4to. pp. xiv + 258 with colour and black & white illustrations.index. Black cloth hard cover in pictorial dust wrapper. Very good copy. Matthew Boulton was an English businessman, inventor, mechanical engineer, and silversmith. He was a business partner of the Scottish engineer James Watt. In the final quarter of the 18th century, the partnership installed hundreds of Boulton & Watt steam engines, which were a great advance on the state of the art, making possible the mechanisation of factories and mills. Boulton applied modern techniques to the minting of coins, striking millions of pieces for Britain and other countries, and supplying the Royal Mint with up-to-date equipment. Born in Birmingham, he was the son of a Birmingham manufacturer of small metal products he expanded it considerably, consolidating operations at the Soho Manufactory, built by him near Birmingham. At Soho, he adopted the latest techniques, branching into silver plate, ormolu ("gilt bronze") and other decorative arts.…