Author: Cecil Clutton; G. H. Baillie; C. A. Ilbert
Title: Britten&Apos;S Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers: A Historical and Descriptive Account of the Different Styles of Clocks and Watches of the Past in England and Abroad Containing a List of Nearly Fourteen Thousand Makers
Description: London, Eyre Methuen in association with E. & F. N. Spon Ltd , 1973. Cloth. An attractive copy of this comprehensive history of clock and watch making, illustrated profusely throughout. A later revised edition of this work.In the original clipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with almost two hundred plates and an array of diagrams throughout the text. A comprehensive picture of the development of clock and watch making, from an introduction of measuring time as a concept, to records of famous makers such as Nicholas Cratzer and David Ramsay. This edition revised by Cecil Clutton (1909-1991), who had a wide interest in antiquarian horology and was one of the founding members of the Antiquarian Horology Society. In the original cloth binding. In the original clipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Hinges are starting but firm. Dust wrapper is edge worn with marks to the wrap. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Near Fine . Ill.: F. Janca. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.
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Title: Britten&Apos;S Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers: A Historical and Descriptive Account of the Different Styles of Clocks and Watches of the Past in England and Abroad Containing a List of Nearly Fourteen Thousand Makers
Description: London, Eyre Methuen in association with E. & F. N. Spon Ltd , 1973. Cloth. An attractive copy of this comprehensive history of clock and watch making, illustrated profusely throughout. A later revised edition of this work.In the original clipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with almost two hundred plates and an array of diagrams throughout the text. A comprehensive picture of the development of clock and watch making, from an introduction of measuring time as a concept, to records of famous makers such as Nicholas Cratzer and David Ramsay. This edition revised by Cecil Clutton (1909-1991), who had a wide interest in antiquarian horology and was one of the founding members of the Antiquarian Horology Society. In the original cloth binding. In the original clipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Hinges are starting but firm. Dust wrapper is edge worn with marks to the wrap. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Near Fine . Ill.: F. Janca. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.
Keywords: Design Antiquities Illustrated Antiquities F. Janca
Price: GBP 45.00 = appr. US$ 64.26 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 911Y55
- Book number: 911Y55
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