[Rarebooks] FS: 1836 American Industrial Revolution Memoir

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

White, George S. "MEMOIR OF SAMUEL SLATER, The Father of American
Manufactures. Connected with a History of the Rise and Progress of the
Cotton Manufacture in England and America. With Remarks on the Moral
Influence of Manufactories in the United States"

Philadelphia; Printed at No.46, Carpenter Street: 1836.

The earliest and best biography of the "Founder of the American Industrial
Revolution", written by a friend. As a teenager Slater had been
apprenticed to Jedidiah Strutt, a partner, with Richard Arkwright, in one
of England's pioneering textile mills. Realizing that there was a greater
chance for advancement in America than England, especially for a young man
armed with technological secrets the British were frantic to keep within
their own borders, Slater snuck off to America disguised as a common
laborer and was soon employed by a struggling Rhode Island textile firm.
Reproducing the Arkwright textile machines from memory, Slater transformed
the American textile industry overnight, eventually founded his own mills,
and became a millionaire.

White's biography not only affords us the insight of a personal friend of
the great engineer, but also offers valuable details on the problems of
manufacturing in early 19th century America, as seen through
contemporaneous eyes. This first edition includes the separately printed
title- "Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury Transmitting Tables and
Notes on the Cultivation, Manufacture, and Foreign Trade of Cotton".

Hardcover. 6"x9.5", 448 + 120 pages with 22 (of 19 called for) engraved
and wood-engraved plates (two folding), and several wood engravings in the
text (the plate count of the 1836 edition varies from copy to copy most
copies seem to have either 19 or 21). Publisher's diced patterned cloth
with some soil and fading at the edges; neatly rebacked with new endpapers
and a new spine. A little internal browning and light scattered foxing,
but overall a very nice copy.  [30918]  $275.00


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