This Antique Collectors' Club edition of Britten's Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers (3rd edition) adds 250 extra illustrations to the existing 800 photographs and drawings.
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This Antique Collectors' Club edition of Britten's Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers (3rd edition) adds 250 extra illustrations to the existing 800 photographs and drawings.
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Seller's Description:
A revision of the third edition with additonal illustrations (hardback). 4to (28cm by 22cm), 517pp. 800 numbered illustrations, plus an additional 250 un-numbered illustrations, together with an introduction and additional comments. Original blue cloth, dustwrapper. The book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. This edition was first published in 1977; this copy is a reprint from 1994. ISBN 0902028693.
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1994 Printing, 1977 Copyright Date. Antique Colectors' Club Printing/Edition. Text of the classic 1911 Third Edition with 250 additional illustrations, comments and an introduction. 517 pages, 8.5 x 11 in size, Hardcover with dustjacket in protected mylar cover (removable). Book is Unused. From a bookseller's unsold backstock. Original price sticker removed from barcode area on back cover. Inside pages are in Excellent Condition with no tears and with no notations (no pencil marks, no underlining, no highlighting, etc. ) See our photo for cover art.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. 4to. Antique Collectors' Club Edition of Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers: Being an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Different Styles of Clock and Watches of the Past, in England and Abroad to which Is Added a List of Eleven Thousand Makers. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 516 pp, introduction, a summary list of the writings of F.J. Britten, preface to the Third Edition, preface to the First Edition, The Antique Collectors' Club, I. Time, and Early Time Recorders; II. Weight Clocks; III. Portable Timekeepers; IV. Pocket Watches, etc.; V. Records of Early Makers, etc.; VI. French Clocks and Cases in the French Style: Other Curious Timekeepers; VII. The Progression of English Domestic Clocks; VIII. Mechanism of Clocks and Watches; IX. Former Clock and Watch Makers; index. Third Revised Edition, 1994. "A revision of the Third Edition with another 250 b&w illustrations added to the original 800, together with an introduction and additional comments." Price clipped. Very small triangular chip to bottom edge spine dj with rubbed area around chip, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Navy-blue cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine, and pictorial endpapers.
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