Britten's old clocks and watches and their makers.
by F J Britten, revised by G H Baillie, C A Ilbert and Cecil Clutton, with diagrams by F Janca and endpapers by L H Cresswell:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0413287009
- ISBN 13
- 9780413287007
- Seller
-
Tewkesbury, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Eyre Methuen, 1973. Eighth edition (hardback). 4to (28cm by 22cm), xxiii, 532pp. Colour frontispiece, 3 colour plates, 192 b&w plates, 40 text figures. Original green cloth, dustwrapper. Bookplate to the front pastedown, minor foxing of the endpapers, else the book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition (dustwrapper price-clipped). This eighth edition was first published in 1973; this copy is a reprint from 1975. ISBN 0413287009
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cornell Books Limited (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 61567
- Title
- Britten's old clocks and watches and their makers.
- Author
- F J Britten, revised by G H Baillie, C A Ilbert and Cecil Clutton, with diagrams by F Janca and endpapers by L H Cresswell:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0413287009
- ISBN 13
- 9780413287007
- Publisher
- London: Eyre Methuen, 1973.
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1973
Terms of Sale
Cornell Books Limited
Returns accepted for any reason, provided that you notify us within 7 days of receipt. The customer is responsible for paying return shipping unless the book was not as described.
About the Seller
Cornell Books Limited
Biblio member since 2005
Tewkesbury
About Cornell Books Limited
We are a medium-sized bookshop located in a small country town in the west of England. The shop is open for business from 1030 to 1700 Monday to Saturday. The building is a fifteenth-century former public house. We are still awaiting the day when we find a book older than the shop itself!
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