Rape of the Fair Country by Alexander Cordell. 1960. H/C with jacket. 288 pp.

The impact of the Industrial Revolution on an community still agricultural in its rhythms and beliefs.

The story of the early Welsh foundries and those who worked them: the puddlers blinded by the glare of molten metal, the women hauling underground trams like beasts of burden, the half-starved children sent up to The Top to spend a long, weary day chipping ore.

First published 1959 by Victor Gollancz, London. This is the reprint of 1960 by The Reprint Society, London. Condition: Good. Wear and tear at edges and corners of jacket.