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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Dustwrapper. 1st Edition. 112pp; damage to top edge of front board with some stains. Pages 66/67 has corner of page torn off. Some damage to corner of page 68. This section is in wrong order - publisher error. History of Firth's steel industry.

History of a weapon-factory. - Good condition. (WV.09a).

A very good original binding. Beige cloth spine over beige boards. Spine with rubbed paper label. Front board with gilt crest and titles. Corners rubbed and bumped, otherwise a good tight binding. [10pp.]pp.112 . Well illustrated with black & white portraits and pictures. VG. ** "Firth Brown Steels was initially formed in 1902, when Sheffield steelmakers John Brown & Company exchanged shares and came to a working agreement with neighbouring company Thomas Firth & Sons. In 1908 the two companies came together and established the Brown Firth Research Laboratories and it was here, in 1912, under the leadership of Harry Brearley they developed high chrome stainless steel. The companies continued under their own management until they formally merged in 1930 becoming Firth Brown Steels. The company is now part of Sheffield Forgemasters." - See Wikipedia.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. The very scarce first edition of the history and development of Firth's. A complete history of Firth's, originally published in instalments in 'The Bombshell'. This is the first book form edition, a very scarce volume.Firth's was a merchants and manufacturers company of files, saw and edge tools. Opening with a chapter on the early beginnings, and concluding through to the activities of the company during the Great War, with record of the seventies and eighties, some personalities prior to 1900, and developments throughout.Illustrated with frontispiece and further plates in black and white. In the original publisher's quarter cloth binding over paper covered boards. Externally very smart with light bumping to head and tail of spine and extremities, boards lightly marked. Previous ownership inscription to front free endpaper, dated 1924. Internally, firmly bound. Spotting to fore edge affecting only occasional leaf, pages otherwise generally bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…