Britten's Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers
E. and F. N. Spon, 1956.
Seventh edition. Original blue cloth in the printed dustwrapper. Folding frontispiece, 183 plates and 40 diagrams. A fine copy, in a very good dustwrapper, which is price-clipped and has a long closed tear across the width of the lower panel.
Includes details and images of John Harrison's "fourth time-keeper which won the £20,000 prize offered by Parliament for a means of ascertaining the longitude at sea, 1759."
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