Review
"Spectacular! I can only begin to imagine how many hours of dedication this must have taken to put together." -- Purchaser, January 2003
Book Description
From 1874 to 1876 William Greey was the flour inspector for the City of Toronto, County of York and the County of Peel in Ontario Canada. In 1876 he began to sell mill furnishings and was joined by his son John G.in 1877. The Wm. and J.G. Greey Mill Furnishings Firm was founded in Toronto, grew quickly and became well known across Canada and beyond.
Three catalogues illustrating 19th-century mill furnishings were published by the firm. The second was produced in 1888 (reproduced in this CD) and distributed as a standard book of reference for the grain milling trade. The third larger edition (also reproduced in this CD) was published in 1901.
From the Publisher
Care has been taken to portray each of the over 800 pages in full colour as they appear today in their antique paper form. The CD contains thousands of engravings of mill machinery and tools depicting every detail in the original catalogues. The contents are also a valuable resource for anyone interested in the mechanical components of self-powered mills in nineteenth century Canada. The CD contains active Internet web links to the Harrington Grist Mill and to hundreds of other mills in Canada and the United States via the Canadian Chapter of the Society for the Preservation Of Old Mills (SPOOM).
From the Author
These now rare and fragile catalogues offer extremely detailed lithography, complete with prices, of hundreds of machines and components which went together to create a working nineteenth century Canadian mill.
