HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1950 * Publisher: Rocliff.* Binding and cover condition: Medium Blue cloth, Gilt title to spine. Slight bumps & rubs, cover slightly dowdy. GD+* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, slight marks, otherwise no visible faults. VG+* Illustrations: B/w photos & line drawings throughout. Coloured frontis removed.* Pages: 250 pp. text. xiv pp. Appendices & Index of makers at rear.* Description: A History of the domestic clock from the earliest Lantern Clocks and the formation of the Honourable Company of Clockmakers through to the chronometers and regulators of the nineteenth century. There are chapters on the Clockmakers of Early America, Japanese Clocks and Provincial Clocks as well as an appendix giving the dates of English Clockmakers. This volume is more devoted to the development than the technology of clock-making and constitutes an important guide for the collector.* A GOOD copy with some shelf and reading wear. Frontis removed, No dust jacket.*

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1708
Title: In Quest Of Clocks
Author: Ullyett, Kenneth
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - VG+/GD/ND
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Rockliff
Place of Publication: London Uk 269
Date Published: 1950-01-01
Weight: 0.00 lbs

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