xvi, 320, [2] pp. 4to. A biography of the greatest English watch- and clockmaker of the seventeenth century, with an assessment of numerous pieces of his work. Includes a color frontispiece, three color plates, black-and-white photographic plates depicting numerous examples of Tompion's work, black-and-white diagrams, and a fold-out facsimile of the association oath roll of the members of the London Clockmakers' Company in 1697. A list of subscribers precedes the text.
