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North Melbourne: Arcadia. 2017. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 261 pages. Richard 'Dicky' Dawson, Sydney merchant and engineer, a well-liked, highly-respected and fair man but a hard taskmaster, was Australia's first important iron founder. From the 1830s, his Australian Foundry at Sydney Cove near Circular Quay produced a wide range of agricultural, architectural, marine and goldfields iron castings and machinery, including steam engines, and made a major early contribution to colonial development by importing iron-trade technologies and products of England's Industrial Revolution. . New. 1st Edition. Trade Paperback.