 | Abraham Holroyd - 1873 - 202 pages
...Little Horton, near Bradford, where he ended his days about the year 1743 (should be in 1742), and where I have seen not only a large and very fine collection...them, both in wood and brass, the divisions of which were so exquisite, as would not discredit the first artist of the present time; and I believe there... | |
 | Liba Chaia Taub, Frances Willmoth - 2006 - 21 pages
...Yorkshire and seen a substantial collection of Sharp's tools and instruments, 'the divisions whereof were so exquisite, as would not discredit the first artists of the present times' (1785).6 During the following century these artefacts were dispersed and many of them disappeared;... | |
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Bradford, where he ended his days about the year 1743 (should be, in 1742) ; and where I have seen not only a large and very fine collection of mechanical tools, the principal ones being made with his own hands, but also a great variety of scales and... 
