 In 1835 came "The History and Description of Fossil Fuel, The Collieries and Coal Trade of Great Britain".Its title page further identifies him as the author of the "Treatise on Manufactures in Metal", which is said to be in three volumes, as part of Dionysius Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia (1830–1844).The coal trade book is an erudite, but readable, comprehensive survey of many aspects of the coal industry up to 1835, running to 478 pages.