A HISTORY OF COPPER MINING IN CORNWALL AND DEVON By D.B. Barton.
This is the first book devoted solely to the history of the copper mines of the West of England, traces the development of the industry from its pioneer Elizabethan days through the years of greatness from 1750 to 1850--when Cornwall dominated the world's copper markets--to the final decline in the closing years of the nineteenth century; an account not only of copper mining itself but also of its associated smelting in South Wales and Bristol.
Also the development of the early Cornish tramroads, engineering, and ports with which it was so closely bound up. This history of a once important but now vanished industry will be of interest to students everywhere of Britain's industrial and economic past.
Soft cover, 5 x8, 96 pages, a few black and white photos, published 1978, $15.
