Spectacles and eyeglasses: Their forms, mounting, and proper adjustment
 Catalogue Number: 4434 Spectacles and eyeglasses: Their forms, mounting, and proper adjustment Category: Book Sub-Category: Book of historical note Author: PHILLIPS, R.J Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 1923 Edition: 5th edition Time Period: 1900 to 1939 Place Of Publication/Manufacture: Philadephia Publisher/Manufacturer: P. Blakiston's Son & Co. Description Of Item: Original decorated dark blue cloth cover; 89 pp. Bookplate of the Wright Library of the Australian Optometrical Association on the front pastedown with the name of the donor D J Rees imprinted. Historical Significance: Phillips was an ophthalmic surgeon and adjunct professor of diseases of the eye in the Philadelphia Polyclinic and College for Graduates in Medicine. This book was written as a class text. It covers the materials and cosmesis of spectacles, spectacle fitting, prescription of frames, checking and adjustment of glasses. It was written because textbooks on refraction 'remain almost devoid of reference to the subject of fitting spectacles and the 'scant literature is scattered through optician's trade publications' . The second edition is also held in the archive See Catalogue Nos 53 and 63 How Acquired: Donated by Optometry Australia Date Acquired: 27/2/2023 Condition: Cover poor, contents good Location: Archive room. East wall. Books of historical note |