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CONDITION: Good to Very Good (see table below for details). Ex-library with stamps to endpapers. Some dirt and edgewear to boards and spine, fading to spine. Split to cloth along outer spine, but board still attached. Some sunning to pages and plates. Occasional ink stamp to corner of pages, and to endpapers. Spine showing at front endpaper, binding still okay. Collated and complete. *Photo(s) given of actual book. |
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CONTENTS: A rare Indian work on cotton manufacturing in Bombay. A detailed work, it includes a history of cotton mills in Bombay since the mid-19th century, the changes in spinning and weaving machinery, the agency system of mill management, the cotton factory operatives, and a huge number of statistics on imports and exports, the comparable industry in Japan, machinery businesses, legislation, wages, profits, and so on.
The largest part of the book is a list of all the Bombay cotton mills, including details of start date, financial position, profits and losses, principal mill staff, and suppliers of machinery. Geneaologists and historians alike will especially appreciate the numerous pages of names of workers and staff at the the Indian mills. The text is accompanied by photo plates of the mills, and portraits and group shots of the owners and managers. Numerous interesting advertisements realted to the textile industry (UK and India) at front and rear. A thorough work, likely to be of interest to historians.
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