This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...36,000 Net Value of Output...... 38,000 The reader will notice that similar headings appear in more than one of the foregoing Returns. This is due to the fact that two or more branches of these industries perform a proportion of the same class of work. For example: cardboardboxes are chiefly made in factories which ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...36,000 Net Value of Output...... 38,000 The reader will notice that similar headings appear in more than one of the foregoing Returns. This is due to the fact that two or more branches of these industries perform a proportion of the same class of work. For example: cardboardboxes are chiefly made in factories which confine themselves to this one branch, but these boxes are also made, to a small extent, by manufacturing stationers. So also with job and general printing. There are firms which specialize in this work, but a number of newspaper concerns, especially in country towns, also do an amount of such printing. Further, several printing-houses produce weekly newspapers and periodicals. Thus it will be seen that it is necessary to analyse all the Returns set forth in this section if the reader is to obtain a comprehensive insight into the full dimensions of these industries. Although I am without definite data as to the changes that have taken place in the Irish printing and allied industries during the past thirteen years, I have good grounds for believing that these industries have developed to a satisfactory extent in the interim. Colour-printing, which is used so extensively in connexion with advertising matter, is a branch of the trade which has progressed considerably in this country in recent years, and the printing of books is increasing yearly. Chapter VII THE LEATHER GROUP I. TANNING LEATHER and whisky are two of the most important branches of manufacture in this country, considering the immense amount of labour which is employed in their production. So wrote John Francis Maguire in the year 1853. At that time there were sixteen tanneries at work in the city of Cork, some years earlier there had been forty. Tanneries were also operating in...
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Good. 1920. Hardcover. 335pp. Original cloth with title gilted on spine and embossed on front cover. The edges are uncut, the pages and text are very clear and bright. Previous owner's signature on ffep, and it is stamped a presentation copy. First edition copy.....We ship daily from our warehouse.
