{"product_id":"salomons-breguet-supplement-one-of-1-000-london-1921","title":"Salomons' Breguet Supplement, One of 1,000, London 1921","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Supplement to Sir David Salomons' Breguet of 1921, the book that founded Breguet scholarship in English: one of 1,000, complete in its original blue wrappers.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSir David Lionel Salomons owned more Breguet than anyone of his era, over a hundred watches and clocks with the Marie-Antoinette among them, and in 1921 he did what nobody had yet done in English: he published the record, Breguet (1747-1823), written from the pieces on his own shelves. A century on, it is still the book the trade opens when Breguet needs explaining.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the Supplement he issued almost immediately afterwards. New watches and clocks kept surfacing while the main volume was at the printers, and rather than leave them unrecorded he set them down in a further volume and sent it after the first. It carries the portrait plate of Abraham-Louis Breguet and the engraving of the Maison Breguet on the Quai de l'Horloge, and it was printed, like the main book, in an edition of 1,000.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis copy is complete and honest. The original blue-grey paper wrappers are present with the title crisp in black, the spine is intact, every page is there and the plates are clean. There is light foxing to the front cover, the even toning a century puts into paper, and a small bump to one lower corner, and that is all. Books issued in paper wrappers usually pay for being read; this one was read carefully and kept well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor anyone building a Breguet shelf, the Supplement is the volume that finishes what the main book began. The publication story, the condition and the particulars are set out in the rooms below.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sir David Salomons","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54523068449107,"sku":"CI-0016","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/sir-david-lionel-salomons-curiosity-item-1_Hero.jpg?v=1786465187","url":"https:\/\/estatecollection.nl\/products\/salomons-breguet-supplement-one-of-1-000-london-1921","provider":"The Estate Collection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}