Clocks.- Iden (Walter J.) Photographs & Descriptions of 68 Very Fine and Rare Old English Clocks...in the collection of Walter J.Iden...An XVIIIth Century Makers Masterpiece, album of photographs mounted on 35 leaves with detailed manuscript descriptions in ink, tissue guards, original cloth fastened with metal screws, slightly rubbed, oblong folio, 1943. ⁂ One of only a few albums produced by the owner, all different. "As his collection grew and his albums became full, it was his habit to give them away to some interested or helpful friend and he would then start new ones...He spared no expense of either time or money in the preparation of these sets of albums...[&] took infinite pains in pasting in the photographs and in annotating them." Dawson. The Iden Clock Collection, p.14 Provenance: The Partridge Fine Arts Research Library
Clocks.- Iden (Walter J.) Photographs & Descriptions of 68 Very Fine and Rare Old English Clocks...in the collection of Walter J.Iden...An XVIIIth Century Makers Masterpiece, album of photographs mounted on 35 leaves with detailed manuscript descriptions in ink, tissue guards, original cloth fastened with metal screws, slightly rubbed, oblong folio, 1943. ⁂ One of only a few albums produced by the owner, all different. "As his collection grew and his albums became full, it was his habit to give them away to some interested or helpful friend and he would then start new ones...He spared no expense of either time or money in the preparation of these sets of albums...[&] took infinite pains in pasting in the photographs and in annotating them." Dawson. The Iden Clock Collection, p.14 Provenance: The Partridge Fine Arts Research Library
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