Clocks

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32032, 5 July 1969, Page 4

Clocks

European Hocks. By E. J. Tyler. Ward Lock. 239 pp. Glossary, Index, Bibliography.

Mr Tyler has worked with clocks and written about them for many years. He has restored docks centuries' old, and has travelled extensively in Europe, studying docks there. Therefore, in his book Mr Tyler calls on wide knowledge and experience as he discusses European clocks, their history, and the craftsmen responsible for the development of the clock as we know it today. We can safely assume, Mr Tyler says, that the mechanical dock was well established before 1350. After this date, radically different types of docks were made in different parts of Europe before, in the end, mass production saw the dedine of the craftsman. In the interim years a host of interesting, and indeed fascinating, developments occurred; many are recorded by Mr Tyler. His book is lavishly illustrated, the illustrations showing especially the art, skill and taste devoted to the cases and faces that covered the cogs, balances, ratchets and springs, comprising the working parts of one dock. The publishers have been at pains to produce a book of very high standard.,