A HISTORY OF AMERICAN MANUFACTURES FROM 1608 TO 1860; exhibiting the origin and growth of the principal mechanic arts and manufactures from the earliest colonial period to the adoption of the Constitution; and comprising annals of the industry of the United States in machinery manufactures and useful arts, with a notice of the important inventions, tariffs, and the results of each decennial census .. to which is added statistics of the principal manufacturing centres, and descriptions of remarkable manufactories at the present time.

Philadelphia: Edward Young, 1864. Second edn. Two volumes. 8vo, pp. 642, 826. Frontis potraits. Covers little dusty, but VG tight copies. Howes B-476. Item #39440

A pretty comprehensive review, including charts of tarriff and census figures.

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