The Sandvik Steel Works.

GöRANSSON, Göran Fredrik.

$1,500.00

Item Number: 35019

Gothenburg: John Antonsons Boktryckeri, 1931.

First Edition. Quarto. Bound in full blue morocco, gilt crowned monogram, “EP” to the front panel, gilt illustrated curtain frame to front and rear panel. Gilt tooling to the spine. Frontispiece portrait of G.F. Goransson, the first industrialist to implement the Bessemer process successfully on an industrial scale. With thirteen pantone-gravure plates illustrated by artist Ragnhild Nordensten. From the library of Edward, Duke of Windsor with Sotheby’s sale label, “The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, September 11 – 19, 1997.”

Founded by G.F. Goransson in 1862 and situated on the north eastern shore of Sweden, Sandvik Steel Works was the first steel firm in the world to use the Bessemer process in commercial steel production and operated multiple shipping routes between Sweden, Great Britain, and Denmark. The publication chronicles the foundation of the firm and describes its process and products in great detail with thirteen pantone-gravure plates.