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Circa: 2003
Manufacturer: Schiffer
Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry. OUR NOTES:This is a premium, oversized (roughly coffee table sized) book on the topic of English Precision Pendulum clocks. This volume has over 700 color and black and white photos and illustrations. Topics listing include: John Shelton, Thomas Mudge, William Dutton John Ellicott Alexander Cumming John Arnold, John Roger Arnold, Arnold & Dent Regulators of Thomas Earnshaw & George Margetts The Vulliamys The Spring Pallet Escarpements of Hardy & Reid The Georgian and Regency Style Victorian Regulators Including the Gravity Escarpment Wall & Table Regulators Glossary of Terms Index ….. and Much More! Please see Table of Contents for full list. PUBLISHER’S REVIEWThis beautiful book presents the fascinating developments in precision time keeping in England from 1720 through the 18th and 19th centuries. The work of well-known 18th century horologists, Shelton, Ellicott, Arnold, Cumming, Earnshaw and the Vulliamys, Reid and Hardy and others are included.
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| Their technical advances in precision pendulum clocks are documented along with the evolution of the cases they were housed in, from the early Georgian style to the classic Victorian dome-topped regulators. |
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