The Brickmasters 1788-2008
by Ringer, Ron
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- Hardcover
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Kings Cross, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Dry Press Publishing, Sydney 2008. 28.5 x 22.0cms, 434pp, 450 b/w & colour illusts, very good+ hardback & dustwrapper (in fine decorated slipcase) This book explores the history of Austraia's brickmaking industry from the discovery of workable clay at Cockle Bay (1788), through various 19th century industrial transformations to the advent of the Austral Brick Company (1908); Brickworks Ltd (1938) and their amalgamation (1969).
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- Bookseller
- THE CROSS Art + Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 191816
- Title
- The Brickmasters 1788-2008
- Author
- Ringer, Ron
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Dry Press Publishing, Sydney 2008
- Keywords
- dry-press bricks Edwin Spackman, William King Dawes Jim Milner building terra cotta tiles clay kilns
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THE CROSS Art + Books
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Kings Cross, Sydney, New South Wales
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THE CROSS ART + BOOKS
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We stock books about art, design, fashion and history, with a lot of books about Asian, Australian and Pacific arts, crafts, design and cultural history. We have books on women artists, academic analyses and dissident life as well as monographs on Old Masters and avant-garde artists.
Our shop is in Sydney's legendary Kings Cross, which provided alternatives to Australia's normalities and suburbia for 80 years. Colloquially known as The Cross, this name signifies Antipodean bohemia, street gangs and a famous red light district.
We buy quality books on the visual arts, architecture & design. We do not sell any children's books, cooking books, novels or self-help books. Five minutes walk from Kings Cross station, we are open between 10 – 6, every day of the week.
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