Old clocks and watches and their makers : being an historical and descriptive account of the different styles of clocks and watches of the past, in England and abroad to which is added a list of nearly twelve thousand makers / by F.J. Britten [...] ; with 859 illustrations, mostly from photographs.
Frederick James Britten (1843-1913)
Category
Books
Date
1922
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3061494
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii, 822 p. : ill. ; 8vo. Pencil price on front free endpaper: "32/n". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed G.S. 24 [1924]: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's brown cloth; triple blind fillet to form an outer border on upper board; blind stamped title and publisher's device on upper board; gilt lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Frederick James Britten (1843-1913), author