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Description Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to publications@publicdomain.org.uk This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via DMCA@publicdomain.org.uk

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9780559095276 | Bibliolife, April 30, 2009, cover price $38.99
9780559095399 | Bibliolife, April 30, 2009, cover price $35.99
9781404331563 | Indypublish.Com, November 1, 2002, cover price $19.99

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9781519240507 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 12, 2015, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Description Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.
9781502883032 | Createspace Independent Pub, April 26, 2015, cover price $20.99
9781463524883 | Createspace Independent Pub, May 31, 2011, cover price $10.99
9781438530260 | Lightning Source Inc, November 30, 2009, cover price $20.45
9780559095290 | Bibliolife, April 30, 2009, cover price $26.99
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An instructive history, this remarkable work recounts the causes leading to the persecution of the French Protestants and traces their emigration from France to England and Ireland. An interesting feature of the work, to the genealogist, is the collection of 300 biographies of noted Huguenot refugees who settled in Britain. Additionally, the work contains an important section on the Huguenots in America by G. P. Disoway

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9781443736039, titled "The Huguenots: Their Settlements, Churches and Industries in England and Ireland" | Read Books, November 30, 2008, cover price $45.45
9781436666350 | Kessinger Pub Co, June 30, 2008, cover price $53.95

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9781108079822 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 22, 2015, cover price $49.00
9780548896945 | Kessinger Pub Co, February 28, 2008, cover price $38.95
9781406797299, titled "The Huguenots: Their Settlements, Churches and Industries in England and Ireland" | Hesperides Pr, June 30, 2006, cover price $22.99
9781410203588 | Univ Pr of the Pacific, December 1, 2002, cover price $34.50 | About this edition: An instructive history, this remarkable work recounts the causes leading to the persecution of the French Protestants and traces their emigration from France to England and Ireland.
9780806304977, titled "The Huguenots: Their Settlements, Churches & Industries in England & Ireland" | Clearfield Co, January 1, 1972, cover price $41.50 | About this edition: An instructive history, this remarkable work recounts the causes leading to the persecution of the French Protestants and traces their emigration from France to England and Ireland.

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Product Description: Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to publications@publicdomain.org.uk This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via DMCA@publicdomain...read more

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9781443736909 | Read Books, November 30, 2008, cover price $43.95 | About this edition: One of the original self-improvement texts, originally published in 1897.
9781421901565 | Indypublish.Com, March 30, 2005, cover price $65.99 | About this edition: Samuel Smiles (1812-1904), was a Scottish author and reformer.
9781404344624 | Indypublish.Com, February 1, 2003, cover price $97.99 | About this edition: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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9781517268046 | Createspace Independent Pub, September 8, 2015, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Character is one of the greatest motive powers in the world.
9781515134282 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 24, 2015, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: Character
9781502367525 | Createspace Independent Pub, October 2, 2014, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: "Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man"—DANIEL.
9781492702290 | Createspace Independent Pub, September 11, 2013, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: *
9781604507041 | Lightning Source Inc, June 30, 2009, cover price $8.99 | About this edition: Character is one of the greatest motive powers in the world.
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A Publisher and His Friends

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9781530390311 | Createspace Independent Pub, April 1, 2016, cover price $24.99
9781515134237 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 18, 2015, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: A Publisher and His Friends

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Product Description: Excerpt from the Preface: “The object of the book briefly is, to re-inculcate these old-fashioned but wholesome lessons—which perhaps cannot be too often urged,—that youth must work in order to enjoy,—that nothing creditable can be accomplished without application and diligence,—that the student must not be daunted by difficulties, but conquer them by patience and perseverance,—and that, above all, he must seek elevation of character, without which capacity is worthless and worldly success is naught...read more

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9781443739733 | Obscure Pr, November 30, 2008, cover price $42.45 | About this edition: Originally published in 1908.

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9781515134251, titled "Self Help With Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance" | Createspace Independent Pub, July 18, 2015, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Self Help with Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance
9781505817096, titled "Self Help; With Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance" | Createspace Independent Pub, December 29, 2014, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct was a book published in 1859 by Samuel Smiles.
9781482600896 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 21, 2013, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Self-Help was a book published in 1859 by Samuel Smiles.
9781409707448, titled "Self-help With Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance" | Read Books, May 30, 2008, cover price $33.99 | About this edition: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.
9781846645938 | Obscure Pr, February 28, 2006, cover price $28.99 | About this edition: Originally published in 1908.
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Product Description: The Author offers the following book as a continuation, in a more generally accessible form, of the Series of Memoirs of Industrial Men introduced in his Lives of the Engineers. While preparing that work he frequently came across the tracks of celebrated inventors, mechanics, and iron-workers—the founders, in a great measure, of the modern industry of Britain—whose labours seemed to him well worthy of being traced out and placed on record, and the more so as their lives presented many points of curious and original interest...read more

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9780559325557, titled "Industrial Biography: Iron-workers and Tool-makers" | Bibliolife, October 31, 2008, cover price $36.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

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9781502881113, titled "Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers" | Createspace Independent Pub, March 9, 2015, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: "[.
9781502855695 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 18, 2014, cover price $8.99 | About this edition: The Author offers the following book as a continuation, in a more generally accessible form, of the Series of Memoirs of Industrial Men introduced in his Lives of the Engineers.
9781493679669 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 5, 2013, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work.
9783867414654 | Europ Fischer Hochschulverlag, August 6, 2010, cover price $58.00 | About this edition: Collection of biographies of celebrated inventors, mechanics, and iron-workers - the founders of the modern industry of Britain.
9780559325540, titled "Industrial Biography: Iron-workers and Tool-makers" | Bibliolife, October 31, 2008, cover price $33.75 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
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Product Description: Men of Invention and Industry by Samuel Smiles.

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9781437815832 | Indypublish.Com, May 31, 2008, cover price $43.99 | About this edition: Men of Invention and Industry by Samuel Smiles.
9781404318403 | Indypublish.Com, August 1, 2002, cover price $95.99 | About this edition: Men of Invention and Industry by Samuel Smiles.

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9781517268114 | Createspace Independent Pub, September 8, 2015, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: "A speck in the Northern Ocean, with a rocky coast, an ungenial climate, and a soil scarcely fruitful,—this was the material patrimony which descended to the English race—an inheritance that would have been little worth but for the inestimable moral gift that accompanied it.
9781515134268 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 19, 2015, cover price $11.99
9781502367570 | Createspace Independent Pub, October 2, 2014, cover price $8.99 | About this edition: I offer this book as a continuation of the memoirs of men of invention and industry published some years ago in the 'Lives of Engineers,' 'Industrial Biography,' and 'Self-Help.
9781500438739 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 7, 2014, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Men of Invention and Industry by Samuel Smiles.
9781492702344 | Createspace Independent Pub, September 11, 2013, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: I offer this book as a continuation of the memoirs of men of invention and industry published some years ago in the 'Lives of Engineers,' 'Industrial Biography,' and 'Self-Help.
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Product Description: The present is a revised and in some respects enlarged edition of the 'Life of Telford,' originally published in the 'Lives of the Engineers,' to which is prefixed an account of the early roads and modes of travelling in Britain. From this volume, read in connection with the Lives of George and Robert Stephenson, in which the origin and extension of Railways is described, an idea may be formed of the extraordinary progress which has been made in opening up the internal communications of this country during the last century...read more

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9781517268138 | Createspace Independent Pub, September 8, 2015, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: The present is a revised and in some respects enlarged edition of the 'Life of Telford,' originally published in the 'Lives of the Engineers,' to which is prefixed an account of the early roads and modes of travelling in Britain.
9781502367938 | Createspace Independent Pub, October 2, 2014, cover price $7.49 | About this edition: The present is a revised and in some respects enlarged edition of the 'Life of Telford,' originally published in the 'Lives of the Engineers,' to which is prefixed an account of the early roads and modes of travelling in Britain.
9781492702429 | Createspace Independent Pub, September 11, 2013, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: The present is a revised and in some respects enlarged edition of the 'Life of Telford,' originally published in the 'Lives of the Engineers,' to which is prefixed an account of the early roads and modes of travelling in Britain.

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Product Description: This book is intended as a sequel to "Self-Help," and "Character." It might, indeed, have appeared as an introduction to these volumes; for Thrift is the basis of Self-Help, and the foundation of much that is excellent in Character...read more

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9781435370685 | Indypublish.Com, November 30, 2007, cover price $65.99 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
9781428025424 | Indypublish.Com, August 30, 2006, cover price $80.99 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
9781421941639 | Indypublish.Com, May 11, 2005, cover price $98.99 | About this edition: Excerpt from ThriftThis book is intended as a sequel to "Self-Help," and "Character.

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9781502367556 | Createspace Independent Pub, October 2, 2014, cover price $8.99
9781492702337 | Createspace Independent Pub, September 11, 2013, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: "Not what I have, but what I do, is my kingdom.
9781438523972 | Book Jungle, August 30, 2009, cover price $16.45 | About this edition: Samuel Smiles was a 19th century Scottish author and reformer.
9788132044758 | Lightning Source Inc, September 30, 2008, cover price $16.87 | About this edition: Excerpt from ThriftThis book is intended as a sequel to "Self-Help," and "Character.
9781406575774 | Dodo Pr, February 28, 2008, cover price $23.99 | About this edition: Samuel Smiles (1812-1904), was a Scottish author and reformer.
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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9781428097834 | Indypublish.Com, April 30, 2009, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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9781517268053 | Createspace Independent Pub, September 8, 2015, cover price $7.49
9781505424621 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 8, 2014, cover price $8.99
9781502367532 | Createspace Independent Pub, October 2, 2014, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Six years since, I published a book entitled The Huguenots: their Settlements, Churches, and Industries, in England and Ireland.
9781492702320 | Createspace Independent Pub, September 11, 2013, cover price $8.99 | About this edition: This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks.
9781409940258 | Ill edition (Dodo Pr, January 31, 2009), cover price $31.99 | About this edition: Samuel Smiles (1812-1904), was a Scottish author and reformer.

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Product Description: 20th February: At Gravesend.—My last farewells are over, my last adieus are waved to friends on shore, and I am alone on board the ship 'Yorkshire,' bound for Melbourne. Everything is in confusion on board. The decks are littered with stores, vegetables, hen-coops, sheep-pens, and coils of rope...read more

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9781437826678 | Indypublish.Com, July 30, 2008, cover price $20.99 | About this edition: 20th February: At Gravesend.

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9781517268121 | Createspace Independent Pub, September 8, 2015, cover price $7.49 | also contains A Boy's Voyage Round the World | About this edition: 20th February: At Gravesend.
9781502367594 | Createspace Independent Pub, October 2, 2014, cover price $7.99 | also contains A Boy's Voyage Round the World | About this edition: 20th February: At Gravesend.
9781492702368 | Createspace Independent Pub, September 11, 2013, cover price $7.99 | also contains A Boy's Voyage Round the World | About this edition: This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS.
9781437826890 | Indypublish.Com, July 30, 2008, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: A Boy's Voyage Round the World is presented here in a high quality paperback edition.

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9781515134299 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 18, 2015, cover price $9.99

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Product Description: Industrial Biography

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9781404366602 | Indypublish.Com, July 1, 2003, cover price $21.99 | About this edition: From prehistory to James Naysmith and William Fairbairn.
9781404309883 | Indypublish.Com, June 1, 2002, cover price $25.99 | About this edition: From prehistory to James Naysmith and William Fairbairn.

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9781515134275 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 18, 2015, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: Industrial Biography
9781437814002 | Indypublish.Com, May 31, 2008, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: From prehistory to James Naysmith and William Fairbairn.
9781406805802 | Echo Library, August 30, 2006, cover price $14.90 | About this edition: From prehistory to James Naysmith and William Fairbairn.

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Product Description: "[...] Jasmin begins to write in Gascon Uneducated Poets Jasmin's 'Me cal Mouri' Miss Costello's translation The 'Charivari' Jasmin publishes First Volume of 'The Curl-papers' (Papillotos) CHAPTER VI...read more

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9781437810653, titled "Jasmin Barber, Poet, Philanthropist" | Indypublish.Com, May 31, 2008, cover price $64.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

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9781437896121, titled "Jasmin Barber, Poet, Philanthropist" | Indypublish.Com, February 28, 2009, cover price $58.99 | About this edition: My attention was first called to the works of the poet Jasmin by the eulogistic articles which appeared in the Revue des Deux Mondes by De Mazade, IST odier, Yillemain, and other well-known reviewers.
9781406575736 | Dodo Pr, February 28, 2008, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Samuel Smiles (1812-1904), was a Scottish author and reformer.
9781434672667 | Bibliobazaar, January 11, 2008, cover price $25.75 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
9781434672674 | Large print edition (Bibliobazaar, January 11, 2008), cover price $28.75
9781425025540, titled "Jasmin Barber, Poet, Philanthropist" | Large print edition (Read How You Want.Com, December 1, 2006), cover price $18.99 | About this edition: ReadHowYouWant publishes a wide variety of best selling books in Large and Super Large fonts in partnership with leading publishers.
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9780453010030, titled "Weight Watchers New Program Cookbook" | Reissue edition (New Amer Library, September 1, 1978), cover price $10.95 | also contains Weight Watchers New Program Cookbook | About this edition: Hardcover.
9780678056325 | Reprint edition (Augustus m Kelley Pubs, June 1, 1968), cover price $150.00 | About this edition: This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks.

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9781505353891 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 21, 2015, cover price $19.99
9781406829051 | Ill edition (Lightning Source Inc, September 30, 2009), cover price $21.90

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Product Description: This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

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9781502321305 | Createspace Independent Pub, September 9, 2014, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

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Product Description: This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

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9781500991432 | Createspace Independent Pub, August 29, 2014, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
9781406575743 | Dodo Pr, February 28, 2008, cover price $21.99 | About this edition: Samuel Smiles (1812-1904), was a Scottish author and reformer.
9781419169915 | Kessinger Pub Co, June 17, 2004, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

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Product Description: This two-volume account of the life and friendships of the publisher John Murray (1778-1843), told largely through his voluminous correspondence, was published in 1891 by Samuel Smiles (1812-1904), whose Lives of the Engineers, Self-Help, and other works are also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection...read more

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9781108073936 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 17, 2014, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: This two-volume account of the life and friendships of the publisher John Murray (1778-1843), told largely through his voluminous correspondence, was published in 1891 by Samuel Smiles (1812-1904), whose Lives of the Engineers, Self-Help, and other works are also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.

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Product Description: One of the most popular and prolific writers during the Victorian age, Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) emphasised individual responsibility in the pursuit of personal and social improvement. Among other titles, his acclaimed Lives of the Engineers (1861-2) and insightful Autobiography (1905) are also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection...read more

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9781108074308 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 21, 2014, cover price $39.99 | About this edition: One of the most popular and prolific writers during the Victorian age, Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) emphasised individual responsibility in the pursuit of personal and social improvement.

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Product Description: This biography of the civil engineer Thomas Telford (1757-1834) was published in 1867 by Samuel Smiles (1812-1904), the author of Self-Help and of other biographies of engineers and innovators. Smiles had already written about Telford's life and achievements in Volume 2 of his Lives of the Engineers (which is also reissued in this series), but in returning to the topic he adds to this new edition an introductory section (taken from Volume 1 of Lives of the Engineers) on the history of roads in Britain, from prehistoric trackways, via the Romans, to the modern road-building system pioneered by John Metcalf (the extraordinary 'Blind Jack of Knaresborough') and Telford himself...read more

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9781108067898, titled "The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer: With an Introductory History of Roads and Travelling in Great Britain" | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 20, 2014, cover price $39.99 | About this edition: This biography of the civil engineer Thomas Telford (1757-1834) was published in 1867 by Samuel Smiles (1812-1904), the author of Self-Help and of other biographies of engineers and innovators.
9781406805864 | Echo Library, September 30, 2006, cover price $14.90 | About this edition: This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS.

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Product Description: This two-volume account of the life and friendships of the publisher John Murray (1778-1843), told largely through his voluminous correspondence, was published in 1891 by Samuel Smiles (1812-1904), whose Lives of the Engineers, Self-Help, and other works are also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection...read more

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9781108073912, titled "A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray, With an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768–1843" | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 30, 2014, cover price $49.99 | About this edition: This two-volume account of the life and friendships of the publisher John Murray (1778-1843), told largely through his voluminous correspondence, was published in 1891 by Samuel Smiles (1812-1904), whose Lives of the Engineers, Self-Help, and other works are also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.
9781108073929, titled "A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray, With an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768–1843" | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 30, 2014, cover price $49.99 | About this edition: This two-volume account of the life and friendships of the publisher John Murray (1778-1843), told largely through his voluminous correspondence, was published in 1891 by Samuel Smiles (1812-1904), whose Lives of the Engineers, Self-Help, and other works are also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.

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Product Description: A political and social reformer, Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) was also a noted biographer in the Victorian period, paying particular attention to engineers. His first biography was of George Stephenson (1781-1848), whom he met at the opening of the North Midland Railway in 1840...read more

Hardcover:

9780559178177, titled "The Life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer" | Bibliobazaar, October 30, 2008, cover price $39.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
9780548092903, titled "The Life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer" | Kessinger Pub Co, July 30, 2007, cover price $52.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

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9781108052733, titled "The Life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer" | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 28, 2012, cover price $54.99 | About this edition: A political and social reformer, Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) was also a noted biographer in the Victorian period, paying particular attention to engineers.
9780559178146, titled "The Life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer" | Bibliobazaar, October 30, 2008, cover price $36.75 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
9781425560072, titled "The Life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer" | Scholarly Pub Office Univ of, September 30, 2006, cover price $29.99
9781425498627 | Kessinger Pub Co, May 30, 2006, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

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Product Description: The life and works of civil engineer Thomas Telford. With an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britian. Originally published in 1867.

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9783867414463 | Europ Fischer Hochschulverlag, September 17, 2010, cover price $67.00 | About this edition: The life and works of civil engineer Thomas Telford.

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Product Description: Civilisation began with tools; and every step in advance has been accomplished through their improvement. James Nasmyth's goal had always been to optimise those tools by applying common sense to the use of materials, which became the core principle of his very own definition of engineering...read more
By Samuel Smiles (editor)

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9781559180313 | Rev rep edition (Lindsay Pubns, June 1, 1990), cover price $23.50 | About this edition: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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9783867414593 | Europ Fischer Hochschulverlag, August 11, 2010, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Civilisation began with tools; and every step in advance has been accomplished through their improvement.

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Product Description: Life and works of two of the very first civil engineers. Reprint of the 1879 edition.

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9783867412681 | Europ Fischer Hochschulverlag, April 16, 2010, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Life and works of two of the very first civil engineers.

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