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Old Clocks for Modern Use, with a Guide to Their Mechanism by Wenham, Edward, Formerly Editor of 'The Connoisseur' - 1951

by Wenham, Edward, Formerly Editor of 'The Connoisseur'

Old Clocks for Modern Use, with a Guide to Their Mechanism by Wenham, Edward, Formerly Editor of 'The Connoisseur' - 1951

Old Clocks for Modern Use, with a Guide to Their Mechanism

by Wenham, Edward, Formerly Editor of 'The Connoisseur'

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover
  • first
London: G. Bell & Sons, Ltd, 1951 Hardback, 140mm x 220mm tall (5.5" x 8.75" approx.). Pp xvii, 174, with an engraved frontispiece and title-page vignette and 70 further figs. in the text, plus 16 plates with a total of 26 b/w photographs and an extensive list of Clockmakers. Very good, in the original terracotta cloth-covered boards/gilt spine title, and with the unclipped but somewhat edge-chipped illustrated dust-wrapper.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Chipped d/w. Illus. by Holloway, Edgar. 8vo..
  • Bookseller Independent bookstores GB (GB)
  • Illustrator Holloway, Edgar
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Very Good
  • Jacket Condition Chipped d/w
  • Edition First Edition
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher G. Bell & Sons, Ltd
  • Place of Publication London
  • Date Published 1951
  • Keywords Noisbn Horology Clock Clocks Time Timepieces Antique Antiques Longcase Grandfather Science Technology De Dondi Astronomy Greenwich Tompion Dialling Sundial Sundials
  • Size 8vo.