Ironbridge Landscape Of Industry.
£10.00
Publisher
Cassell.
Place
London
Date
1977
Item Description
Square 4to. 9.5 x 10. 25 inches. 159 + [1] pp. Bound in original brown cloth, gilt, in pictorial dust wrapper. A very good copy. Illustrated by colour frontispiece, by plan and diagrams, and throughout by colour and black and white photographs. Pictorial endpapers. Evocative photographs of Ironbridge and Coalbrookdale, one of the birthplaces of the Industrial Revolution in England, by Harry Sowden (b.1929), photographer and designer. The text is by Neil Cossons (b.1938), distinguished museum administrator and industrial archaeologist, first Director of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust in 1971. Subsequently he headed the National Maritime Museum, the Science Museum and English Heritage.
[Stock No. 25787]
