Lancashire Illustrated, From Original Drawings - PREFACE - LANCASHIRE has long been to Great Britain the cradle of mercantile science, and the great emporium for machinery and manufactures. A publication, therefore, which presents to the reader a pictorial cyclopedia of what is most remarkable in the County, accompanied with historical notices of the rise and progress of its trade, can hardly fail to meet the approval of an enterprising and commercial people. That this is a Work of no common character, the number of its Engravings, and the superior manner in which they have been executed, will most fully attest. To elucidate, explain, and describe these superb..............