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"Discovering Oil Lamps"
by
Cecil A. Meadows

We have managed to obtain a small stock of this extremely useful, now out of print definitive work on oil lamps. All copies are new and unread.

For such a small book, just 7" by 4½" with soft cover and comprising only 48 pages it contains an incredible amount of information about oil lamps, their history, types of fuel used through the ages, different types of chimneys and burners, sizes, shapes, dimensions, facts and figures - in fact everything anyone needs to know to put them on their way to becoming an expert on oil lamps!

This book could be said to be the father of all oil lamp books, I have seen passages blatantly taken from it inserted word for word into much more expensive and glossy books on oil lamps.

Cecil A Meadows was in the ironmongery trade from the early 1920s when oil lamps were still widely on sale. He built up a considerable collection himself and as these items of nineteenth century lighting started becoming obsolete he put his knowledge on paper in book form for the benefit of all lovers of how things were.

I'm afraid the price has to be higher than the £3.50 marked on the back cover but as they are out of print and rare the cost to me was considerably more than this!

Price £11.27 UK pounds sterling including UK delivery

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This is the 2001 reprint and is new and unread