Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851

Gloria Clifton
Gerard L'E. Turner (Editor)
This publication lists over 5,000 scientific instrument makers and retailers working in the British Isles from 1550 to 1851, together with a further 10,000 names of apprentices and associates, and reproduces one hundred previously unpublished illustrations of makers' advertisements.
352 pages, 100 mono illustrations, cloth, 280 x 250mm
ISBN 13: 
978 0 302 00634 4
ISBN 10: 
0 302 00634 6
£75
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Each entry includes estimated working dates, specific trades, addresses, training, apprentices, types of instruments made and brief biographical details. As such this volume not only provides essential information for collectors, dealers, museum curators and scholars, but it will also have much to offer economic, social and family historians, with its evidence about master-apprentice links, trade connections and family relationships.

Gloria Clifton is Curator of Navigational Instruments at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. After completing her PhD., she worked on the SIMON research project on scientific instrument makers under Professor G. L'E Turner of Imperial College, London, who is the General Editor of this volume.