Arts and Artisans at Home and Abroad

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Excerpt from Arts and Artisans at Home and Abroad: With Sketches of the Progress of Foreign Manufactures The researches I have assisted in making under the Hand-loom Commission, and more especially my subsequent mission of inquiry into the relative circumstances of the artisans of France, Belgium, Austria, and Switzerland, aided by the facilities afforded me through the personal and official services of our Ambassadors, have necessarily opened to me a wide and valuable field of observation, affording fruits which I am neither able to comprise, nor willing to confine, within the limits of a Parliamentary Report. The fearful increase of our population - the restricted amount of our means of sustenance - the precarious position of commerce, and the agitated and morbid condition of the artisan millions - sufficiently attest the importance of a correct knowledge of the relative features of the British and Continental industry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.