Old Silver Work, Chiefly English from the XVth to the XVIIIth-Centuries: A Catalogue of the Unique Loan Collection Exhibited 1902 at St. James's Court, London, in Aid of the Children's Hospital, Gt. Ormond Street
London: B. T. Batsford, 1903. Hardcover. Olive green cloth with gilt lettering. New, black library-binding spine. Inside green libaray buckram cloth folio and slipcase. xiv + 198 pp + 121 bw plates with captions on facing pages. Oversize and heavy. 20 pounds. Will require additional shipping. Good (Plates clean and tight with occasional tanning to spine margin. Chipping to untrimmed text page edges. Cover is quite worn, bumped and soiled but solid. Joints on slipcase starting to separate. Ex-lib. with plate and a few other marks; none on text/plate pages.). Item #29578
Enormous exhibition catalogue which includes historical and descriptive notes and essays on some periods of the silversmith's art. With supplemental works from collections from the Dukes of Devonshire and Rutland, Earl Cowper and others. An amazing volume of drinking horns, flagons, drinking vessels in the form of ships, those made from Ostrich eggs and Palm nuts; epergnes, a nautilus mounted as a silver snail, a gilt ostrich, table services, Pilgrim's bottles, tankards and all sorts of stunning examples of both "ordinary" and outlandish works of silver art. This book would provide endless enjoyment and learning.
Price: $80.00