A history of American manufactures, from 1608 to 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 the industry of the United States in machinery, manufactures and useful arts, with a notice of the important inventions, tariffs, and the results of each decennial census : to which are added statistics of the principal manufacturing centres, and descriptions of remarkable manufactories at the present time
By: by J. Leander Bishop
Contributors: Freedley, Edwin T. (Edwin Troxell), 1827-1904; Young, Edward, 1814-1909
Publisher: Edward Young & Co.; Sampson Low, Son & Co.
Published: 1864
Place of publication: Philadelphia [Pa.]; London [England]
Language: eng
Subjects: Industries; History; Economic conditions; Conditions économiques; Economic history
Notes: The first issue of v. 1 appeared in 1861. In 1862 Bishop entrusted the completion of the work to Edwin T. Freedley and Edward Young--v. 2, p. 11.

Includes bibliographical references and index.