The Strutts and the Arkwrights, 1758-1830

362pp, portrait plate frontispiece, further monochrome plate illustrations and drawings, charts etc in text. In red boards (a little rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Square and firmly bound. In its original dust jacket (generally a little worn, chapped along upper edge). Jedehiah Strutt of South Normanton was the inventor of the Derby Rib Machine which revolutionized one branch of the hosiery trade. He built his business, Strutt and Woollat, and was the most active of Arkwright’s early partners and co-creator of the cotton factory system. This biography draws on previously unpublished material and includes chapters on Strutt’s community buidling at Belper and Milford – where Samuel Slater, called founder of the American Cotton Industry, served as Strutt’s apprentice.