Spectacle fitting and optical dispensing
 Catalogue Number: 776 Spectacle fitting and optical dispensing Category: Book Sub-Category: Book of historical note Author: SASIENI Lindsay Sidney Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 1950 Edition: 1st Time Period: 1940 to 1999 Place Of Publication/Manufacture: London Publisher/Manufacturer: Hammond, Hammond & Co Description Of Item: Original dark blue cloth cover, 294 pages, 240 illustrationa in text, 2 appendices, index. It has a chapter on frame rules Historical Significance: This book illustrates the style of spectacle frames in use in the late 1940s to early 1950s (eg see Figs 133-136). This was a standard text on optical dispensing in the 1950s. This copy was owned by Professor Barry Cole when he was a student in 1951-1954. Sasieni was a Fellow of the British Optical Association and of the Spectacle Makers Compnay and was in the 1950s senior refractionist at the London Refraction Hospital (now the Institute of Optometry), a registered charity established in 1922. It operates a clinic and provides post-graduate clincial training and continuing education. How Acquired: Donated by Professor Barry Cole, former ACO director Date Acquired: July 2013 Condition: Very good Location: Archive room. East wall. Books of historical note |