Description and condition:

Blue boards hardback, dustcover, 8vo, 208pp, index, bibliography, glossary, b/w illustrations.

Very good with nice bright clean pages throughout. In very good dustcover with slight shelfwear.

Contents:

Part one of the text traces the history of water power from the earliest horizontal wheels through to the twentieth century. Part two explains the workings and methods of water supply and controls. The third part provides a gazetteer of watermills in Britain.