£15.00
Title: Pennsylvania Clocks And Clockmakers
Author: George H Eckhardt
Publisher : Bonanza Books
Publication c1955
Format: Hardback
Condition: Blue cloth covers with grey spine-light bumping to the corners. It comes with its dust jacket which is tatty and torn. Pages are clean and free from marks and are illustrated throughout.
Book measures:26cm x 18.5cm with 229 pages
1 in stock
Pennsylvania Clocks And Clockmakers by George H Eckhardt
An Epic of Early American Science, Industry and Craftsmanship. The first book devoted solely to clocks made in Pennsylvania. It is a mine of new information on old timepieces. It gives a detailed account of Pennsylvania tall case clocks and their European antecedents. It tells of their makers, who included Banjamin Franklin and Matthias Baldwin (of locomotive fame); of the part the clocks played in the development of Pennsylvania; of the succeeding styles in decoration, furniture, and folk art that strongly influenced their design….
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