Britten'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 (seventh edition) by G. H. Baillie, C. Clutton, and C.A. Ilbert; illustrations by L.H. Cresswell and F. Janca - c. 1956
by G. H. Baillie, C. Clutton, and C.A. Ilbert; illustrations by L.H. Cresswell and F. Janca
Britten'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 (seventh edition)
by G. H. Baillie, C. Clutton, and C.A. Ilbert; illustrations by L.H. Cresswell and F. Janca
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New York, New York: Bonanza Books, c. 1956. Hardcover--cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Originally published (first edition) in 1899 as "Old Clocks and Watches." This edition originally published by E.P. Dutton. Quarto 11" tall, xx + fold-out frontispiece + 518 pages with b&w intertextual illustration and photographs; blue cloth. A very good, clean, neat hardcover with minor shelf wear over all, cover cloth color faded at the edges; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white, with foxing to the fore-edges. In a very good (minus), lightly worn and soiled dust jacket. Still a terrific reference copy. Includes bibliography and list of former clock and watch makers.
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- Format/Binding Hardcover--cloth
- Book Condition Used - Very Good/Very Good
- Quantity Available 1
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Bonanza Books
- Place of Publication New York, New York
- Date Published c. 1956
- Keywords Watches; Technology; English History; World History; Horology; Horological History; Clocks