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Herbert Cescinsky; Malcolm R. Webster - English Domestic Clocks

Title: English Domestic Clocks
Description: London, George Routledge & Sons, 1914 . Leather. The second edition of this richly illustrated study of the history and design of English clocks throughout the centuries. The second edition of Cescinsky and Webster's work.'Illustrated from Drawings and Photographs by the authors' with vignette illustrations throughout, and with a colour frontispiece of the Renaissance master clockmaker Nicholas Rugendas, with a captioned guard.With an advertisement leaf to the rear.From the library of W.A. Foyle of Beeleigh Abbey. William Foyle founded Foyles bookshop in 1903 alongside his brother. He purchased Beeleigh Abbey during the Second World War, an impressive twelfth century monastery in Essex. Beeleigh housed his library, one of the largest private libraries in England. In a half morocco binding, with cloth covered boards. Minor fading to back strip, with light rubbing to back strip heads and board perimeters. Front joint and first gathering weakly held by cords only. Otherwise, internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Good Only . Ill.: Herbert Cescinsky; Malcolm R. Webster. Good Only .

Keywords: English Domestic Clocks Herbert Cescinsky Malcolm R. Webster w a foyle Herbert Cescinsky Herbert Cescinsky; Malcolm R. Webster

Price: GBP 125.00 = appr. US$ 178.50 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 912F19

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