Antique Collectors' Club Edition of Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers, 3rd Revised Edition
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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. "A revision of the Third Edition with another 250 b&w illustrations added to the original 800, together with an introduction and additional comments."