Description
Published 1994
9″ x 12″. Buckram hard cover, case bound, archival heavy coated paper, approximately 300 pages, 286 illustrations. History of the Lancashire tool industry; origination and development of the mandrel uprighting tool; the approximate full-size reprint of the circa 1775 Daniel Mather, Liverpool, a 19 plate horological tool catalog with three successive price lists, therefore; histories of Lancashire tool makers including the Joneses, Leylands, Daniel Septhon, and others. Many previously unpublished photographs of unusual horological tools, some in the Prescot Watch Museum and BHI.
