Author: LOOMES, BRIAN.
Title: Country Clocks and their London Origins.
Description: First Edition; 8vo; pp. 192; numerous illustrations some full-page others within the text; notes on the clocks illustrated, bibliography, acknowledgements, index; original cloth, dustjacket; price clipped, patchy browning to first few and last pages, edges of pages flecked; otherwise a very good copy. London, David & Charles, (1976). This book shows how the various types of British domestic clocks began in London around 1600, the polished and perfected article emerging about 1700. Clocks made outside London began to appear in the later seventeenth century, and here their character and stylistic developments is examined and reappraised; so are the makers, their way of life and methods.
Keywords: British country Clocks Horology history Fromanteel family
Title: Country Clocks and their London Origins.
Description: First Edition; 8vo; pp. 192; numerous illustrations some full-page others within the text; notes on the clocks illustrated, bibliography, acknowledgements, index; original cloth, dustjacket; price clipped, patchy browning to first few and last pages, edges of pages flecked; otherwise a very good copy. London, David & Charles, (1976). This book shows how the various types of British domestic clocks began in London around 1600, the polished and perfected article emerging about 1700. Clocks made outside London began to appear in the later seventeenth century, and here their character and stylistic developments is examined and reappraised; so are the makers, their way of life and methods.
Keywords: British country Clocks Horology history Fromanteel family
Price: AUD 35.00 = appr. US$ 24.22 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 101549
- Book number: 101549