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I 722 The Publishers' Circular August i , 18 &
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MR . HUNT'S COMPREHENSIVE WORK ON BRITISH MINING . Just published , in super royal 8 vo . upwards of 950 pages , with 230 Illustrations , price £$ . 3 s . strongly bound in cloth . BRITISH MINI NG : A TREATISE ON THE HISTORY , DISCOVERY , PRACTICAL DEVELOPMENT , AND FUTURE PROSPECTS OF METALLIFEROUS MINES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM . By ROBERT HUNT , F . R . S . THE KEEPER OK MINING RECORDS ; FORMERLY SECRETARY OF THE ROYAL CORNWALL POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY ; PROFESSOR OF EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE IN THE ROYAL SCHOOL OF MINES ; EDITOR OF URE ' s DICTIONARY OF ARTS , MANUFACTURES , AND MINES , ETC . ETC . ETC . OPINIONS OF THE PRESS . i Probably no one in this country was better qualified than Mr . Hunt for undertaking such a work . The book is a treasure-house of statistical information on mining subjects , and we know of no other work embodying so great a mass of matter of this kind . Were this the only merit of Mr . Hunt ' s volume , it would be sufficient to render it indispensable in the library of every one interested in the development of the mining and metallurgical industries of this country /—Athenaeum . ' One of the most valuable works of reference of modern times . Mr . Hunt has had opportunities for such a task not enjoyed by any one else , and has evidently made the most of them . . . . The language and style adopted are good , and the treatment of the various subjects , laborious , conscientious , and scientific . '—Engineering . ' The literature of mining has hitherto possessed no work approaching in importance to that which has just been published . . . . The entire subject of practical miningfrom the first search for the lode to the latest stages of dressing the ore—is dealt with in a masterly manner . '—Acade ? ny . ' Every aspect of the many-sided subject receives its due share of careful consideration , and is so fully and so lucidly discussed on the most reliable and unimpeachable data , that the volume will at once take its place as an authoritative and standard treatise . . . . Whoever comes to it for information on any matter relating to metal mining will not go away disappointed , but rather with a feeling of gratitude to the author for the pains he has taken to obtain accurate and trustworthy information , and to set it forth in an easily accessible and digestible form . '—Leeds Mercury . ' A work which , alike in magnitude , in comprehensiveness , and in thoroughness of treatment is probably the most important contribution yet made to the literature of the subject . '—Scotsman . ' A standard work which well supplies a want that has been long felt . To professional miners the volume is one whose utility , to say nothing of its literary worth , jt would * The be difficult complete to appraise and reliable /—Western statistics Dail given y Mercury upon . existing mines and veins in relation to the geology of the localities will be invaluable to the philosophical mineralog ' ist A . ' mass —Glasgow of infor Herald mation . not elsewhere available . Of the greatest value to those who The may work be interested will be for in our the great mining mineral industry industries what Dr . '— . Eng Perc ineer y ' s celebrated . treatise has been to the metallurgical trades—a book that cannot with advantage be omitted fro " the library/—Iron and Coal Trades Review . ffi II ' CROSBY LOCKWOOD & CO ., 7 Stationers ' -Hall Court , Ludgate Hill , London —z = = ^ mi l I
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Aug. 1, 1884, page 722, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01081884/page/22/
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