OIL & KEROSENE LAMPS by PETER CUFFLEY AUSTRALIAN

Peter Cuffleys 1973, 1982 book on the history of Oil Lamps in Australia spanning 225 years. 800 lamps illustrated. Most from catalog images. "This volume celebrates the important milestones in a two hundred and twenty-five year cavalcade of lamps and patents. Here are designs both beautiful and bizarre; lamps of near perfect simplicity and others baffling in their ingenious complexity. Decade upon decade of discovery, subtle modification, social need and industrial revolution are traced in a clear and concise manner, each facet reflecting the importance of lamps and lighting to an ever-changing society." Now published since 2004 by THE OIL LAMP COMPANY in Australia. ISBN 0975239600