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CLUTTON, Cecil BAILLIE, G.H. ILBERT, C.A. JANCA, F Britten's Old Clocks & Watches and Their Makers
Bloomsbury Books, London, 1982, ISBN:0906223695
CLUTTON, Cecil, G.H. BAILLIE, and Courtenay ILBERT. Britten's Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers: A History of Styles in Clocks and Watches and Their Mechanisms with a list of 25,000 makers revised and extended to 1875. London: Bloomsbury, (1982). Ninth edition. Pp. i-xxvii,(1),1-700. Illustrated with line drawings and 388 illustrations including 40 in colour. 8vo, black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Chapters: 1. Counting the hours: from the beginning to 1550; 2. The age of decoration. Clocks 1550 to 1657. Watches 1550 to 1675. The guilds; 3. Counting the minutes: the invention of the pendulum and balance spring; 4. English supremacy circa 1660 to 1750; 5.Counting the seconds 1750 to 1830; 6. Developments since 1830; 7. French c locks; 8. National styles; 9. Alarum, striking and repeating mechanisms; Appendix 1. Records of famous makers; Appendix 2. List of former clock and watch makers; Appendix 3. Hallmarks; Glossary; Revised select bibliography; general index. Light wear to edges of spine, slight staining to corner of bottom edge, else vg in creased, rubbed dj with small 3/4" tear to top of spine. 60.00
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