Matthew Boulton: Selling what All the World Desires

Matthew Boulton: Selling what All the World Desires
ISBN-10
0300143583
ISBN-13
9780300143584
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Language
English
Published
2009
Publisher
Yale University Press
Author
Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery

Description

Explains 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.

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