Illustrated history of early antique spectacles
 Catalogue Number: 4362 Illustrated history of early antique spectacles Category: Book Sub-Category: Hewett collection Author: ORR Hugh Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 1985 Time Period: 1940 to 1999 Place Of Publication/Manufacture: Kent, England Publisher/Manufacturer: Hugh Orr, Kent, England Description Of Item: Stiff card pictorial colour printed covers, 216 x 296 mm, 112 pages, profusely illustrated mostly with black and white photographs. Stamp of the Wright Library of the Australian Optometrical Association inside front cover. Historical Significance: Hugh Orr was an English optometrist and a long time collector of antique spectacles. He was for some years an honorary curator of the BOA Museum collection. His book covers much of the associated history of spectacles with notes on early opticians, items of ophthalmic apparatus and many illustrations. Among the chapters are ones on leather spectacles, orators' spectacles, rivet spectacles, folders, monocles, scissor spectacles and early Chinese spectacles. Another copy Cat. No. 1899 is also held. How Acquired: Donated by Optometry Australia Date Acquired: 6/3/2023 Condition: Good Location: Archive office. Pamphlet and ephemera filing cabinet. Drawer 5 |