The miner's guide, or, Compleat miner : containing I. A succinct account of a vein in the earth... II. The customs, laws and articles of the High and Low-Peak, together with several private liberties ... III. An account of the load-stone, with the first invention of the compass ... IV. Several curious and useful tables, in most branches in mining, by inspection ... V. A brief account of the assaying the two metals, lead and copper. The whole interspers'd with variety of curious observations
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Title: The miner's guide, or, Compleat miner : containing I. A succinct account of a vein in the earth... II. The customs, laws and articles of the High and Low-Peak, together with several private liberties ... III. An account of the load-stone, with the first invention of the compass ... IV. Several curious and useful tables, in most branches in mining, by inspection ... V. A brief account of the assaying the two metals, lead and copper. The whole interspers'd with variety of curious observations
Other titles: Compleat miner
Classmark: BC Sc/HAR
Creator(s): Hardy, William (writer on mining)
Additional creator(s): Manlove, Edward (fl. 1667) (Other)
Related people: Manlove, Edward
Publisher: printed by Francis Lister
Publication city: Sheffield
Date(s): 1748
Language: English
Size and medium: vii, [1], 234, [2] p; 10 plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/285892
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002191749705181
Description
Poem (pp. 110-118), 'The liberties and customs of the lead-mines within the Wapontake of Wirksworth, in the county of Derby. Composed in metre by Edward Manlove'.
Ten plates comprising figures IV-X and three unnumbered diagrams.
Indexed in: References: Hanson : 6132.
Indexed in: Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature, no. 8326.
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