A set of 30 engraved plates extracted from Edward Baines's 1835 History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain. They include portraits of Arkwright, Crompton and Peel, botanical views of cotton plants, ancient and Indian spinning, ginning and weaving tools, and patent drawings of early spinning and carding machines. Later plates show the spinning jenny, throstle and mule, power looms, mills, calico printing, Manchester buildings and magnified cotton fibres. Each plate is captioned with the page of the original book where it appeared.