[AMERICANA]. [HOROLOGY]. JEROME, Chauncey. History of the American Clock Business for the Past Sixty Years? Barnum?s Connection with the Yankee Clock Business. New Haven: F. C. Dayton, Jr., 1860. Small 8vo. Portrait frontispiece. 140 pp. Publisher?s full brown pebbled cloth, boards stamped in blind, front board lettered in gilt (binding rubbed, sunned, soiled, endleaves toned, soiled, foxed, rfep. missing, text toned, foxed, description affixed to ffep.) Good. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST BOOK ON AMERICAN CLOCK MAKING PUBLISHED IN AMERICA. Jerome revolutionized the American clock industry by selling good clocks at prices that average Americans could afford. Later in life, after huge success, he bought a clock company owned by Barnum, which wiped out his fortune. Measurements: 8 x 7 x ??.