Richard Puller (1 results)

Disbound. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A very scarce pamphlet, lobbying for an increase of the protecting duties on lead in the early nineteenth-century. A very scarce work, disbound but intact. This pamphlet, presented to the Board of Trade on 5th March 1830, argues for an increase of the protecting duties on lead for the benefit of the business of lead-mining and smelting lead ores in the United Kingdom. Britain was the leading producer of lead until the mid-nineteenth century; eventually its mines were depleted and lead-mining developed in Germany, Spain and the United States.This very scarce work was written by Walter Hall, Richard Puller and John Taylor (1779-1863). Taylor was a notable British mining engineer who supervised the construction of the Tavistock Canal and the Redruth and Chasewater Railway, and also raised the money needed to re-open the Consolidated Mines in Gwennap, Cornwall. Disbound but intact. Externally, generally smart, with a little age toning and remnants of the original backstrip to the spine. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good. book.