Typescript of the catalogue of Worshipful Company of Clockmakers’ collection of watches and clocks, with a specification
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The catalogue was published as Clocks and Watches: the collection of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers (London, 1975). Correspondence relating to the catalogue can be found at Add MS 89010/9/11-13.
Contains invitations, seating plans, menus, and other papers relating to dinners and events attended by Frank Francis as a guest of, an officer of, or on behalf of the Company. Includes notes of speeches made by Francis at these events. Also included are papers relating to Francis’s election as ...
Contains reports, correspondence, and other papers relating to Project LOC, a collaboration between the British Museum, the Bodleian Library, and Cambridge University Library (London, Oxford, Cambridge – hence LOC) to pilot a computerised union catalogue of books printed before 1801. Frank Franc...