The Cotton Trade Of Great Britain PDF Download

Excerpt from The Cotton Trade of Great Britain: Including a History of the Liverpool Cotton Market and of the Liverpool Cotton Brokers' Association The object of this volume is to furnish our Cotton Merchants, Brokers, Spinners, and Manufacturers, with a handy Manual of Historical and Economical information about tho Commerce and Industry in which they are engaged. A long, practical experience, including much correspondence, has suggested the character of the information supplied, and the method of setting it forth. The staple industry of Lancashire and portions of the neighbouring counties, as known to. the present generation, was founded scarcely a hundred years ago by the genius of Hargreaves, Arkwright, Crompton, and Cartwright; but for several centuries prior to the manufacture of the first piece of British calico, constant efforts had been made to produce fabrics similar to the fustians and calicoes imported from the Mediterranean and the far East. An account of these efforts, and of the success, which eventually attended them, is given in the first and second chapters of Part I. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.