Henry Williams, Lancarvan
The book Henry Williams, Lancarvan - 'A Clock and Watchmaker and a Great Farmer' by Ed Cloutman and Bill Linnard is now on sale!
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NEW HARDBACK: LIMITED EDITION
Henry Williams, Lancarvan
By E.W.Cloutman and W.Linnard
This is a detailed study of the life and work of Henry Williams (1727–1790), a farmer/clockmaker who produced some of the finest domestic clocks ever made in Wales. Apprenticed in Gloucester, but subsequently working in the little village of Llancarfan in the Vale of Glamorgan, Henry Williams was a remarkable and versatile clockmaker.
This lavishly illustrated book describes in detail all his known clocks, and presents a penetrating analysis of their stylistic features. The clocks include a month-going longcase clock, ten eight-day longcase clocks (three of them with tidal dials), two thirty-hour longcase clocks (one with alarm), and a fine bracket clock as well as silver watches.
The study reveals a connection between Henry Williams and the Bilbie family of clockmakers in Somerset, which gives important new insights into clock-dial manufacture and dial engraving in the eighteenth century. It also shows the relationships and social status of this master craftsman within the rural community in the ‘Garden of Wales’.
This book is a major contribution to the study of clockmaking in the eighteenth century and provides a unique picture of contemporary life in the Vale of Glamorgan.
This first edition is strictly limited to 300 individually numbered copies. It consists of 136 pages, hardback, with 180 illustrations and 4 colour plates. Price £24.50 including postage and packing within the UK.
Please make out cheques to Tathan Books and send to Tathan Books, PO Box 6044, Radyr, Cardiff CF15 8YS.
ANOTHER NEW BOOK!
Wales Clocks and Clockmakers
by William LinnardThis comprehensive reference book treats the subject from the earliest records of medieval Welsh clocks and their makers, through the eighteenth century, to the decline of traditional clockmaking at the end of the nineteenth century.
It includes: early turret clocks in Welsh churches; the first records of domestic clocks in Wales; and the inventories of Welsh clockmakers. Fully illustrated accounts are given of brass-dial and painted-dial longcase clocks, including distinctively Welsh features of dial decoration and case design. Further chapters cover Welsh tidal-dial clocks, and the many Welshmen who worked as clockmakers and watchmakers in London, Bristol and Shrewsbury. There are also detailed descriptions of some outstanding Welsh clocks.
A major part of this book is the comprehensive illustrated alphabetical list, giving details of well over 2,000 individual Welsh clockmakers and their clocks, while geographical and subject indexes facilitate searches and cross-referencing.
This book, the first on the clocks and clockmakers of Wales in over a quarter of a century, incorporates the latest research, much of it never before published. Much needed and long awaited, it is an essential resource for horologists, antique collectors and Welsh historians alike.
272 pages, hardback, 243 illustrations, map, appendix, index.
For full details of the book contact Mayfield Books at www.mayfieldbooks.freeserve.co.uk.
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