Pandaemonium

This is an anthology assembled by Humphrey Jennings of short contemporary passages, from the mid-seventeenth century to the late nineteenth, in which witnesses describe machines, mines, factories, railways, and the new industrial landscape of Britain. Extracts come from diaries, poems, reports, and letters; Jennings arranges them as a sequence rather than as a continuous argument. The subject is the coming of the machine as people at the time saw it. The book is a documentary collage of the Industrial Revolution, not a single-author narrative history.

Bound in grey cloth blocked with a design by Jamie Keenan. Ribbon marker. Colour printed slipcase with black caps.