comprehensive Collection of Items Relating to Samuel Cunliffe Lister and Manningham Mills lister

comprehensive Collection of Items Relating to Samuel Cunliffe Lister and Manningham Mills lister was a British inventor and industrialist who played a key role in the development of Bradford's wool industry during nineteenth century. Items include: Beaumont (R.) Woollen and Worsted, 1919, 3rd ed, enlarged (inner hinges split, ft. bd. almost detached); Five Patents, all 4to in blue wraps, eg. Machinery for Preparing and Combing Wool and other Fibrous Materials; 1854; two 4to booklets Manningham Mills and A Maker of Bradford; two vellum documents for Grant of Patents 1864 and 1877, both with wax seals in tins (one damaged, one complete); Green Leather Cigar Case with silver trim embossed "S. Cunliffe Lister, Swinton Park; with Other Letters, Documents, Printing Plates, etc.