Old clocks and watches & their makers : being an historical and descriptive account of the different styles of clocks and watches of the past, in England and abroad, to which is added a list of nearly twelve thousand makers (1922)
Britten, F. J. (Frederick James), 1843-1913, Britten, Annie · London : E. & F. N. Spon · leaf 37
with their accustomedregularity. Decker says the time of St. Pauls goes truer by fivenotes than St. Sepulchres chimes. Other writers confirm the supposition that dials were absent frommost of the early clocks. M, Viollet-le-Duc ( Dictionnaire Raisonne 20 Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers de… … Fig. Fig. 17.—Jacquemarts at Dijon. 18.— Jack the Smiter,Southwold Church. were covered by smaU projecting roofs and made either of wood or leadand decorated in colours. Froissart, who had an affection for clocks, speaks of one whichexisted at Courtray prior to 1370 as the largest which had then…
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