Old London Silver: Its History, Its Makers and Its Marks

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903. First. Hardcover. Leather on boards with gilt titling and decoration, no dust jacket as issued, 405 pp., 5 full-page illustrations in silver-gilt including frontispiece, 173 bw figures in text, and over 4,000 facsimilies of makers marks and hall-marks. Fair, spine missing, binding holding, covers scuffed, especially lower one, corners and some edges worn. Pages slightly age-darkened. Item #128429

A classic book. Summarized from the preface: Includes a short history of the silversmiths' art in England, illustrated by portraits of distinguished ones, and "pieces of silver that one finds on a well-appointed table…The list of makers' marks is the most elaborate ever compiled…The difficult question of frauds is considered."

Price: $20.00