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Old Spectacles and Spectacle-Makers
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typescript
Orr, Hugh
Europe: United Kingdom
c.1996
paper
overall: 296 mm x 210 mm

Full-scale mock-up/printer's proof of a proposed publication providing a miscellany of illustrations and information on antique spectacles, much of it drawn from the collections of the British Optical Association Museum. Includes testimonial from Peter Leigh, Secretary of the College of Optometrists. Also sections on: Who Invented Spectacles and When? The Stormy Life of James Mann 1660-1730; The Turlingtons and the Spectacle Makers Company; Robert Bretell Bate - Optician and Master Mariner; The Transition from Gold, Silver and Steel Spectacles to Rolled Gold; Thomas Ribright c.1710-1780, Optician to HRH George, Prince of Wales. A4 portrait format printed on one side only on each of 53 pages with soft front cover, stapled in top corner.


1998.417

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