Poultry Pigeon Bees and Rabbits Lever Brothers Port Sunlight H/B Ch LIV-CVII
Fascinating and Wonderful Rare Hardback Book Published by Lever Brothers Port Sunlight and inscribed by 'the sunlight Soap Makers to Edward Williams' inside the fly sheet - entitled Poultry Pigeon Bees and Rabbits - with many useful black and white illustrations - it appears to be part of a periodical probably published regularly to encourage the residents of Port Sunlight to tend to animals on the estate (see more about Lever Brothers and Port Sunlight below)- we think it probably dates to the latter half of the 19th Century and includes Chapters LIV to CVII - Chapeters CIII onwards relate to The Dog - in used worn condition with foxing/spotting to the inside front and pages early pages, dusty, some wear to the woven cloth binding and with some discoloration to the pages- please check photographs which form part of the description and do help- interesting book - we cannot find another book like it and with the inscription this must be a keeper - don't miss it!
Lever Brothers Port Sunlight:Lever Brothers was founded in 1885 by William Hesketh Lever and
James Darcy lever. They bought a small soap works in Warrington. William Henry Watson
developed a new formula for soap using vegetable oil in place of tallow. The resultant
soap was superior in every respect to all other soaps then on the market. It
was named Sunlight and the formula was patented. Using glycerin and vegetable
oils such as palm oil, rather than tallow, to manufacture soap, they produced a
good, free-lathering soap, called Sunlight Soap. The soaps were made from a
mixture of coconut or palm kernel oil, cotton-seed oil, resin and tallow.1886 Levers were the first to sell soap in
cartons. 1887 By the end of this year, Lever and Co was making 450 tons
of Sunlight soap a week. William Lever bought a site for a large factory on the
banks of the Mersey opposite Liverpool. This was on marshes at Bromborough Pool
on the Wirral Peninsula adjacent to Prices soap and candle factory which had
opened in 1855. The new development was called Port Sunlight and included a
village for its workers. Lever Brothers was one of several British companies
that took a caring, paternalistic interest in the welfare of its employees. This
was a major feature of the company's operations right from the start; the model
village of Port Sunlight was developed between 1888 and 1914 adjoining the soap
factory to accommodate the company's staff in good quality housing, with high
architectural standards and many community facilities, amenities and leisure
facilities, in the same way that Price's had built a model village for
its workers.
Measurements
Total Weight before packing 295 grams
7.25" x 4.75" x 1"
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