 | - Book Title: Royal Clocks.
- Author: Cedric. JAGGER
- ISBN: B000OFVX70
- Publisher: Robert Hale
- Year Published: 1983
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- Description: Royal Clocks. The British Monarchy and its Timekeepers 1300-1900. Robert Hale, 1983 first edition: softcover: approximately 8.5 x 11 inches tall: 340 pages including index : black and white and colour photographic illustrations. Synopsis: An horological history and in-depth study of clocks belonging to the Royal Family, including those displayed in Royal Palaces, and buildings with Royal connections. The authors assemblage of outstanding instruments, each described in a commentary including an account of case, works, and maker, comprehensive history, and anecdotal material, includes black and white and colour photographs. The subjects include clocks and timepieces, barometers and sundials, observatories and scientific instruments. There are 382 entries in all including the following :- The Salisbury Cathedral Clock. The Wells Cathedral clock. Quadrant made for Richard 11. The astronomical clock at Hampton Court Palace. Henry VIIIs astrolabe (1545). Quadrant made for Edward the VI ( 1551) Six Sided Emerald containing watch. Clock by Bartholomew Newsam. The Royal Tudor clock salt. Work by Randolph Bull (1590), David Ramsay, Edward East, Henry Jones, Samuel Knibb, Joseph Knibb, Roberts Seignior, The Curfew Tower Clock (Windsor Castle), Henry Grendon, David Bouguet, Joseph Windmills, Thomas Tampion, Samuel Watson, Daniel Quare , Thomas Herbert, Thomas Cartwright, Richard Vick, Charles Clay, George Pyke, Benjamin Gray, Justin Vulliamy, The Kew Observatory, the Radcliffe Observatory at Oxford,Work by James Newton, George Strigel, Matthew Boulton, Thomas Wright,John Ellicott, Alexander Cumming, Thomas Mudge, John Arnold, Danniel de St Leu, Eardley Norton, Christopher Pinchbeck, Benjamin Vulliamy, Pierre Gaudron, Charles Cress ent , De La Croix, Dellafosse, Dey a Paris, Kinable, Carrigues, Hanson, and many others. Condition: lower corner back cover slightly creased: overall very clean and good/almost as new
- Condition: See Above
- Dustcover: No
- Binding: Paperback
- Type: Used Books
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