Linen Houses of the Lagan Valley: The Story of Their Families Tapa dura - 2003

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Belfast, Ireland: Ulster Historical Foundation, 2002. Hardcover. Very Good Plus / Very Good Plus. Quarto, 10.75 in. x 8.2 in. pp. xvii, {1], 261. Illustrated throughout with color photographs. Dark blue paper boards with gilt title to spine. Very light shelfwear to top and bottom of spine. Illustrated endpapers. Price clipped. Protected in mylar. From the dustjacket: By the late 19th century, Belfast had developed into one of the great industrial cities of the Empire. Much of this new-found wealth was based on the manufacture of linen. The opulent lifestyle that came to be so characteristic of the great linen barons is reflected perhaps best of all in the houses they built. Many travelled from their imposing mansions in the Lagan Valley into the city on the new Great Northern Railway. Others lived in equally resplendent houses near the linen works they had already established on the River Lagan. This book provides an illustrated and informed commentary on the major linen families and the magnificent… Leer más

Belfast : Ulster Historical Foundation, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xvi, 221 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), ports. ; 27 cm. Subjects; Linen industry Northern Ireland Lagan Valley History. Linen industry Northern Ireland History. Architecture, Domestic Northern Ireland. Lagan Valley (Northern Ireland) History. Lagan River Valley (Northern Ireland) Description and travel