page_title: George Dodd (19th-century writer)
section_title: Books
hierarchical_section_title: George Dodd (19th-century writer) / Works / Books
caption_attribution_description: English: Plate from George Dodd (1808–1881), Days at the Factories: Or, The Manufacturing Industry of Great Britain Described (1843), showing a brewery.
context_page_description: George Dodd was an English journalist and writer. His best known work was The Food of London.
context_section_description: For Knight's Weekly Volumes Dodd wrote The Textile Manufactures of Great Britain (British Manufactures. Chemical.—Metals. —British Manufactures, Series 4–6), (6 vols. 1844–6). The work by which he was probably best known was The Food of London; a sketch of the chief varieties, sources of supply … and machinery of distribution, of the food for a community of two millions and a half (1856).
  Some of Dodd's articles were collected and published in volumes, under the titles of Days at the Factories (1843) and Curiosities of Industry (1852). He also compiled Chambers's Handy Guide to London (1862) and Chambers's Handy Guide to the Kent and Sussex Coasts (1863). His other books were:
  Rudimentary Treatise on the Construction of Locks, from materials furnished by Alfred Charles Hobbs; compiled by Dodd, edited by Charles Tomlinson, 1853.
  Pictorial History of the Russian War, 1854–5–6.
  A Chronicle of the Indian Revolt and of the Expeditions to Persia, China, and Japan, 1856–7–8.
  Where do we get it, and how is it made? A familiar account of the mode of supplying our every-day wants, comforts, and luxuries. … With illustrations by W. Harvey [1862].
  Railways, Steamers, and Telegraphs; a glance at their recent progress and present state, Edinburgh, 1867.
  Dictionary of Manufactures, Mining, Machinery, and the Industrial Arts, [1871].
caption: Illustration of a brewery from George Dodd's Days at the Factories (1843)
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