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The Douglas-Wooldridge Compound Ophthalmic Refractometer...Optometer and New Patent Astigmatism Test
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catalogue
Douglas & Wooldridge Ltd (Stourbridge)
Europe: United Kingdom
c.1896
paper; cardboard
overall: 287 mm x 222 mm

Catalogue and promotional brochure for a patented refraction instrument 'for correction of every defect of vision...complete in one instrument'. Printed in Blueish-black on 16 pages of white paper, illustrated with photographs, diagrams and detailed product drawings. Also a guide to the metrical dioptric system of lens measurement. Bound together with three pages of handwritten notes and explanatory sketch diagrams plus a press cutting from the Jeweller and Watchmaker, plus four handwritten prescription sheets, two of them dated March 1896.


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