Lancashire Cotton Industry_ (1904); Cleland,
_Description of the City of Glasgow_ (1840); _A Complete History of
the Cotton Trade, &c._, by a person concerned in trade (1823);
Ellison, _The Cotton Trade of Great Britain including a History of the
Liverpool Cotton Market and of the Liverpool Cotton Brokers'
Association_ (1886); Leon Faucher, _Etudes sur Angleterre_ (1845);
French, _The Life and Times of Samuel Crompton_ (1859); Guest, _A
Compendious History of the Cotton-manufacture, with a Disproval of the
Claim of Sir Richard Arkwright to the Invention of its Ingenious
Machinery_ (1823); Guest, _The British Cotton Manufacture and a Reply
to the Article on Spinning Machinery, contained in a recent Number of
the Edinburgh Review_ (1828); Helm, _Chapters in the History of the
Manchester Chamber of Commerce_ (1902); Kennedy, _Miscellaneous Papers
on Subjects connected with the Manufactures of Lancashire_ (1849);
Ogden, _A Description of Manchester ... with a Succinct History of its
former original Manufactories, and their Gradual Advancement to the
Present State of Perfection at which they are arrived, by a Native of
the Town_ (1783); Radcliffe, _Origin of the New System of Manufacture,
commonly called "Power-Loom Weaving" and the Purposes for which this
System was invented and brought into use, fully explained in a
Narrative concerning William Radcliffe's Struggles through Life to
remove the Cause which has brought this Country to its Present Crisis_
(1828); Rees' _Cyclopaedia_, articles on Cotton (1808), Spinning
(1816) and Weaving (1818); Ure, _The Cotton Manufacture of Great
Britain, investigated and illustrated, with an Introductory View of
its Comparative State in Foreign Countries_ (2 vols.); Ure, _The
Philosophy of Manufacture; or An Exposition of the Scientific, Moral
and Commercial Economy of the Factory System of Great Britain_ (1835);
Watts, _Facts of the Cotton Famine_ (1866); Wheeler, _Manchester: its
Political, Social and Commercial History, Ancient and Modern_ (1836).

In addition there are many short papers in the Manchester public
library. Much valuable information may be obtained from parliamentary
papers; a list of relevant ones is printed as an appendix to Chapman's
_Lancashire Cotton Industry_, but it is too lengthy to repeat here.
The most important are the reports relating to the hand-loom weavers,
those on the employment of child