A history of American manufactures from 1608-1860
Subtitle: exhibiting the origin and growth of the principal mechanic arts and manufactures, from the earliest colonial period to the adoption of the constitution, and comprising annals of industry of the United States in machinery, manufactures and useful arts, with a notice of important inventions, tariffs and the results of each decennial census
By: by J. Leander Bishop
Contributors: Freedley, Edwin T. 1827-1904; Young, Edward, 1814-1909
Edition: 3rd ed., rev. and enl.
Series: CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series = CIHM/ICMH collection de microfiches -- no. 25654; CIHM/ICMH microfiche series -- no. 25654
Publisher: E. Young; S. Low.
Published: 1868
Place of publication: Philadelphia; London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 383
Subjects: United States -- Manufactures -- History.; United States -- Industries -- History.; United States -- Economic conditions -- To 1865.; États-Unis -- Produits manufacturés -- Histoire.; États-Unis -- Industrie -- Histoire.; États-Unis -- Conditions économiques -- Jusqu'à 1865.
Notes: "With an appendix, containing statistics of the principal manufacturing centres, and descriptions of remarkable manufacturies at the present time."

"In three volumes. Vol. I."

Part of a CIHM set. For individual microfiches in this set see CIHM microfiche nos. 25653-25656.

The 1st issue of v. 1 appeared in 1861. In 1862, Bishop entrusted the charge of the work to Edwin T. Freedley, by whom it was completed with the aid of Edward Young--Cf. issue of 1866, v. 2, p. 11--National Union Catalog pre-1956 imprints.

Tables.

Includes bibliographical references.

Includes index.

Filmed from a copy of the original publication held by the Library of Congress, Photoduplication Service. Ottawa : Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions, 1982.

702 p. : ports. ; 24 cm.