The American clock : a comprehensive pictorial survey, 1723-1900, with a listing of 6153 clockmakers / William H. Distin and Robert Bishop.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Dutton, 1976Edition: First editionDescription: 359 pages : illustrations ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0525053107
  • 9780525053101
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Tower clocks -- Tall case clocks -- Dwarf tall case clocks -- Bracket clocks -- Massachusetts shelf clocks -- Lighthouse clocks -- Shelf clock -- Calendar clocks -- Novelty clocks -- Tools -- Wall clocks -- Banjo clocks and Lyre clocks -- Girandole clocks -- New Hampshire mirror clocks -- Calendar clocks.
Summary: "The most of all encomposing work on the subject to be published in many years, The American Clock is certain to become a standard reference work in this important and ever-growing field of collecting. The book is not intended to be a history of clockmaking in America; instead, its purpose is to collect into one volume a very large number of significant clocks of all types so that the collectors will have a substantial pictorial reference with which to compare their own acquisitions and to extend their knowledge of the field. ..." --Taken from the front jacket flap.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room TS543.U6 D57 1976 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000025136

Includes bibliographical references.

Tower clocks -- Tall case clocks -- Dwarf tall case clocks -- Bracket clocks -- Massachusetts shelf clocks -- Lighthouse clocks -- Shelf clock -- Calendar clocks -- Novelty clocks -- Tools -- Wall clocks -- Banjo clocks and Lyre clocks -- Girandole clocks -- New Hampshire mirror clocks -- Calendar clocks.

"The most of all encomposing work on the subject to be published in many years, The American Clock is certain to become a standard reference work in this important and ever-growing field of collecting. The book is not intended to be a history of clockmaking in America; instead, its purpose is to collect into one volume a very large number of significant clocks of all types so that the collectors will have a substantial pictorial reference with which to compare their own acquisitions and to extend their knowledge of the field. ..." --Taken from the front jacket flap.

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listing of US clockmakers (6000+ names) and survey of types of USA clocks, illustrated. Index, bibliography

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