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001 2008035075
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008 080808s2009 ctuab b 001 0beng
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050 00 $aTS140.B68$bM38 2009
082 00 $a739.2/3092$222
245 00 $aMatthew Boulton :$bselling what all the world desires /$cedited by Shena Mason.
260 $a[Birmingham, England] :$bBirmingham City Council ;$aNew Haven [Conn.] ;$aLondon :$bIn association with Yale University Press,$cc2009.
300 $a258 p. :$bcol. ill., maps ;$c30 cm.
500 $a"Accompanies the Matthew Boulton Bicentenary Exhibition, Selling what all the world desires, organized by Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery at the Gas Hall Exhibition Gallery from May to September 2009"--T.p. verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [249]) and index.
520 $aExplains how Boulton, 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. His determination to discourage counterfeiters led to a contract to manufacture British coinage at his mint, and his ormolu ornaments decorated aristocratic drawing rooms.
505 0 $aIntroduction / Rita McLean -- Matthew Boulton and the Lunar Society / Jenny Uglow -- "The Hôtel d'amitié sur Handsworth Heath" : Soho House and the Boultons / Shena Mason -- Picturing Soho: images of Matthew Boulton's manufactory / Val Loggie -- The context of neo-classicism / Nicholas Goodison -- Matthew Boulton's silver and Sheffield plate / Kenneth Quickenden -- "I am very desirous of being a great silversmith" : Matthew Boulton and the Birmingham Assay Office / Sally Baggott -- Ormolu ornaments / Nicholas Goodison -- The Solo steam engine business / Jim Andrew -- "I had L[or]ds and Ladies to wait on yesterday..." : visitors to the Soho manufactory / Peter Jones -- Matthew Boulton's mints : copper to customer / Sue Tungate -- "Bringing to perfection the art of coining" : what did they make at the Soho mint? / David Symons -- A walking tour of the three Sohos / George Demidowicz -- How do we know what we know? The Archives of Soho / Fiona Tait -- Catalogue entries 1-404.
600 10 $aBoulton, Matthew,$d1728-1809.
650 0 $aIndustrialists$zGreat Britain$vBiography.
650 0 $aMechanical engineers$zGreat Britain$vBiography.
700 1 $aMason, Shena.
710 2 $aBirmingham City Museum and Art Gallery.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0825/2008035075.html