Clocks

HARDBACK "OCTOPUS EDITION," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. Reprint, revised. * Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1972 (1961)* Publisher: Octopus.* Binding and cover condition: Colour illustrated boards matching jacket, white title to spine and face. No bumps, minor rubs, no other visible faults. VG+.* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper showing three antique clocks to front and one to rear. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, but showing no shelf price. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edge and to head & tail of spine. VG++ * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Owners name to title & code to reverse. Coloured end papers, dark blue. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, slight age marks to top edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: 136 Illustrations in colour & b/w. * Pages: 96 pp. text. i pp. blank at rear.* Description: In this delightful book about all kinds of clocks, Simon Fleet begins his story with man's earliest timepiece, a stick stuck into the ground to cast a shadow, and traces its history and evolution through sundials and waterclocks, hour glasses and measured candles to the mechanical clock as we know it. The illustrations include old prints of clockmakers and diagrams of clock mechanisms: and among the colour photographs are beautiful French and Italian clocks of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.* A NEAR FINE copy reduced by minor faults to VG+.*