Complete and unabridged, with 56 full-page plates by Sanford Robinson Gifford, Robert Seldon Duncanson and George Inness. A New England granite quarry, the Irish and Italian labor that works it, and the mill-owner's family above. Waller wrote about the working end of industry with real knowledge of the trade. This edition is bound with 56 plates of painting by Albert Bierstadt, George Inness, Robert Seldon Duncanson and Sanford Robinson Gifford, dating from 1819 to 1901.