Collecting Antique Clocks - History Invention Types Movements Etc. / Scarce Book

Description

Lavishly illustrated in color and black-and-white, this early out-of-print book is a pcitrial guide to antique clocks.
CLOCKS
by Simon Fleet, Octopus Books, London, 1961.
“In this delightful book about all kinds of clocks, Simon Fleet begins his story with man’s earliest timepiece, a stick stuck in 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.  He deals with domestic clocks from the end of the fourteenth century to the present day and with chronometers, Japanese clocks and monumental clocks.  Famous clockmakers, both European and American, and the patronage by Royalty of clockmakers all over Europe, are described in some detail.  The 136 illustrations include old prints of clockmakers and diagrams of clock mechanisms; and among the color photographs are beautiful French and Italian clocks of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.”
8.25“ x 9.6“ hardback with dust cover in  very good condition.  96 pages.
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