1830 Memorial Presented to the Board of Trade, March 5th, 1830, Praying an Increase of the Protecting Duties on Lead

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First Edition, Very Scarce

A very scarce work, disbound but intact.

This pamphlet, presented to the Board of Trade on 5th March 1830, argues for an increase of the protecting duties on lead for the benefit of the business of lead-mining and smelting lead ores in the United Kingdom.

Britain was the leading producer of lead until the mid-nineteenth century; eventually its mines were depleted and lead-mining developed in Germany, Spain and the United States.

This very scarce work was written by Walter Hall, Richard Puller and John Taylor (1779-1863). Taylor was a notable British mining engineer who supervised the construction of the Tavistock Canal and the Redruth and Chasewater Railway, and also raised the money needed to re-open the Consolidated Mines in Gwennap, Cornwall.