Early English clocks : a discussion of domestic clocks up to the beginning of the eighteenth century / Percy G. Dawson, C.B. Drover and D.W. Parkes.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: [Woodbridge, Suffolk, England] : Antique Collectors' Club, [1982]Copyright date: ©1982Description: 550 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0902028596
  • 9780902028593
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: This definitive history looks mainly at the period from 1658 (the making of the first English pendulum clocks). The most prolific styles during this time were longcase clocks and bracket clocks and the development of their cases and movements is examined in detail with numerous illustrations. There is also a look at some unusual clocks eg the `Mostyn Tompion'. This book compliments `The longcase clock' by Tom Robinson and `The bracket clock' by Deryck Roberts.
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Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room TS543.G7 D38 1982 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000034039

Includes indexes.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 544-545).

This definitive history looks mainly at the period from 1658 (the making of the first English pendulum clocks). The most prolific styles during this time were longcase clocks and bracket clocks and the development of their cases and movements is examined in detail with numerous illustrations. There is also a look at some unusual clocks eg the `Mostyn Tompion'. This book compliments `The longcase clock' by Tom Robinson and `The bracket clock' by Deryck Roberts.

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Massive work on pre 1800 english clocks, lavishly illustrated

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