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Spectacles and eyeglasses: Their forms, mounting, and proper adjustment

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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

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