The Country Life International Dictionary of Clocks

This new illustrated dictionary brings together the most recent scholarship in the whole field of horology throughout the world. Alan Smith has been able to call upon a distinguished team of contributors from Canada, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the United States of America, as well as from Great Britain, making the book the most international dictionary of its kind ever published. The range of subject-matter, too, is unusually wide, including full discussions of such topics as tower clocks, electric clocks, sundials and astronomical instruments, clockmaking tools and workshop methods, leading clockmakers in over a' dozen countries, with a short history of clockmaking in each, most of which are seldom dealt with in depth outside specialist publications. There is also a rare account of the much misunderstood subject of Far Eastern horology. Each of the five sections of the book (for details please turn to the back flap of this jacket) deals with a major subject-area in horology on an international basis.