[Rarebooks] FS: 1836 Bio -Father of the American Textile Industry

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: "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"

By George S. White.
Published in Philadelphia; Printed at No.46, Carpenter Street: 1836.

DISCUSSION: 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”.

DESCRIPTION: 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).

CONDITION NOTES: 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 some light scattered foxing, several plates
browned (see below, left) but overall a very nice copy.

PRICE: $275~

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