Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 721

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 721 - October 20, 1877Of British industries, not...
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Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 721

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 721

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Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 721

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Author: Various
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Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 721 - October 20, 1877

Of British industries, not the least interesting to a large world of readers, great and small, will be found the manufacture of toys. Mr Bartley, in treating this subject in Mr Stanford's useful series of Handbooks to British Manufactures, rightly assumes that objects which are so inseparably connected with the happiness of our early life cannot be held unimportant; while we need but mention the name of Charles Dickens, in order to lend a charm to the avocations of a doll's dressmaker and a journeyman toy-maker. Although the English productions are almost entirely confined to a few special types of goods, which not only hold their own among foreign rivals, but are largely exported to the continent, we find that in London alone there are, besides various importers of toys, eleven rocking-horse manufacturers, ten wholesale dealers, and one hundred and fifty-one retail dealers, not including the large tribe of small retailers, who combine other occupations with the sale of toys. Though Germany, Switzerland, and France are the great storehouses of all toys of which the material is soft wood, the toy manufacture of London forms a large and interesting industry. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 50486
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Editor: Chambers, Robert, 1802-1871 , Chambers, William, 1800-1883

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