[Rarebooks] FS: 1836 Bio of Samuel Slater, Textile Manufacturing Pioneer

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

“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, in 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). Publisher's 
diced patterned cloth.

CONDITION NOTES: 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.

PRICE: $175-

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