Matthew Boulton - Selling what all the world desires

New Haven and London: Birmingham City Council in association with Yale University Press, 2009. Book. Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Black hardcover with title in silver on spine. Condition: Good, with just a hint of shelfwear to covers. Very light cockling to text throughout. Binding sound, no inscriptipons. Dustjacket condition: Good, with light shelfwear and a couple of very small tears to head of spine of jacket and base of rear of jacket. 258pp. 404 illustrations, the majority in colour. This book was published to accompany the Matthew Boulton Bicentenary Exhibition "Selling what all the world desires" organised by Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery at the Gas Hall Exhibition Gallery from May to September 2009. The book explains how Boulton (1728-1809), a Birmingham "toy" maker producing buttons, buckles and silverware, went into business with James Watt and exported Boulton & Watt steam engines all over the world. Known to Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Erasmus Darwin, Josiah Wegwood and many others, Boulton was a fascinating man, Britain's leading entepreneur of the Enlightenment. NB: A heavy book, will require extra shipping charges if to be sent outside UK..