17th and 18th Century American Silver
New York: Robert Ensko, 1934. Softcover. Blue stapled wraps. Unpaginated. Numerous bw ills. Comprised mostly of line drawings and descriptions, with brief foreword. More
New York: Robert Ensko, 1934. Softcover. Blue stapled wraps. Unpaginated. Numerous bw ills. Comprised mostly of line drawings and descriptions, with brief foreword. More
Winterthur, Delaware: The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1969. Second printing. Softcover. Tannish glossy wraps. 109 pp. Numerous bw illus. Chapters include: "Time's Perfection and Colonial Art," by George Kubler; "The Ecclesiastic Silver of Colonial Mexico," Richard Ahlborn; "Silversmithing in Canada During the French Colonial Period," by John Langdon;..... More
New York / Providence, RI: Gorham Manufacturing Co., 1908. Softbound. Stiff boards with brown cloth tape spine. 140 pp., profusely illustrated in line engraving and photographs on glossy paper. An essential and vital resource for dating styles and individual pieces. Hundreds of individual pieces are illustrated in this larg-format addenda..... More
Albany: Alabany Institute of History and Art, 1964. Softcover. Gray wraps with small illustration and black lettering on front cover, 81 pp. 155 bw plates. Text by Norman Rice. Includes errata and addendum sheet. This exhibition covers the silver of a single community and is chock-full of illustrations. A great..... More
New Haven: Yale Center for American Art and Material Culture. Softcover. White ill. stapled wraps. 26 pp. Numerous bw ills. Commercial and domestic examples of brass in early America. A separate booklet titled "A Checklist Accompanying All That Glisters, Brass In Early America" laid in. Catalogue from the exhibition of..... More
Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1911. Hardbound. Brown buckram covers. 163 pp., 38 bw plates. An astounding and seminal exhibition which brought American Silver into it's own both as historic artifact and collectible commodity. Drawn from many great public and private collections, it took two years to put..... More
Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1911. Hardbound. Printed paper-covered boards with printed cloth spine. xxvii, 163 pp. with 38 plates (containing 45 halftone ill), each plate with printed tissue overleaf; 10 additional halftone illustrations within the text. An astounding and seminal exhibition which brought American Silver into it's..... More
Camden, New Jersey: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1968. Hardcover. Brown cloth, butter DJ. 288 pp. Numerous bw plates. True first edition. From the DJ... "Illustrations of the various types of copper and brass objects are particularly valuable in supplementing the text to supply a precise and extensive account of the..... More
New York: Bonanza, 1924 or later. Hardcover. Blue cloth. xxii, 236 pp. 358 bw ills. More
New York: Bonanza Books, 1924. Hardcover. Illustrated dj; grey cloth with light grey spine, gilt lettering. xxii, 236 pages : illustrations. A basic, comprehensive work on pewter, it presents a detailed history on the art. Contents: Collecting, collectibles and collectibility -- The what, when and where of pewter -- Pewter..... More
1971. Softcover. Black stapled wraps. 40 pp. Numerous bw plates. Exhibit of pewter from 17th and 18th century America. Some of the makers in the collection include Nathaniel Austin, Thomas Badger, William Billings, Parks Boyd, William Calder, Samuel Hamlin, George Lightner, Samuel Pierce, Freeman Porter, James Weekes, William Will and..... More
2006. first edition limited to 500 copis. Hardcover. Index as follows: Introduction -- Baptismal Bowls -- figs. 1-7 -- Basins -- figs. 8-48 -- Beakers -- figs. 49-90 -- Candlesticks -- figs. 91-129 -- Castors -- figs. 130-135 -- Chalices -- figs. 136-166 -- Church Cups -- figs. 167-169 --..... More
Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1974. Hardcover. Orange cloth. 119 pp. Catalogue lists 411 works, which are listed by State, Pewterer, and then Unknown. A fair portion of the photographs have additional annotation in a knowledgeable hand. Introductory essay by Jonothan Fairbanks, followed by very useful illustrations of both the..... More
New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 1965. Softcover. White wraps. 59 pp. Numerous bw plates. Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (Volume 30, Number 3-Fall, 1965). More
New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, Fall 1965. SIGNED. Softbound. White wraps. 59 pp. Numerous bw plates. Virtually all the collection came to Yale in 1930 and 1931 as the gift of Francis P. Garvan, '97, in honor of his wife, Mabel Brady Garvan. More
Camden, New Jersey: Thomas Nelson, 1970. Hardcover. Green cloth, cream illus. DJ. 157 pp. Numerous bw illus. "Deals with the casting and finishing techniques used. Photographs of pewter products and detailed illustrations of the molds that cast them supplement the text. In producing some of the more elaborately contoured pieces..... More
New York: Chanticleer Press, 1949. Hardcover. Navy cloth. 128 pp. 4 color and 32 bw plates. Survey of American silver between the 17th and 19th centuries. More
Hartford: Privately printed, 1965. Limited edition. Hardcover. Grey boards with grey cloth spine. 159 pp. Profuse bw plates. Clear mylar cover. 1 volume of what was eventually a 4 vol. series. This volume is complete by itself. Examples of silver made after 1810. Entries are annotated and include maker, dates..... More
Hartford: Privately printed, 1965. Limited edition. Hardcover. Grey boards with grey cloth spine. 159 pp. Profuse bw plates. 1 volume of what was eventually a 4 vol. series. This volume is complete by itself. Examples of silver made after 1810. Entries are annotated and include maker, dates of activity, initials..... More
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1972. Hardcover. Grey cloth spine with paper boards, black slipcase. Volume I: xx, 383 pp. Numerous bw plates. Volume II: pp. 384 - 708. Numerous bw plates. A truly exhaustive survey of the museum's impressive silver collection. More
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1972. Hardcover. Grey cloth spine with grey boards. Volume I: xx, 383 pp. Numerous bw plates. Volume II: pp. 384 - 708. Numerous bw plates. A truly exhaustive survey of the museum's impressive silver collection. More
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1972. Softbound. Black wraps. Volume I: xx, 383 pp. Numerous bw plates. Volume II: pp. 384 - 708. Numerous bw plates, color frontispiece. A truly exhaustive survey of the museum's impressive silver collection. More
Providence, Rhode Island: Providence College / Rhode Island Bicentennial Foundation, 1980. Hardcover. Black cloth over boards. Gray pictorial dj. 151 pp. Profusely illustrated in BW. Cover title: American Silver 1670-1830: The Moore Collection at Providence College. Features early American silver from Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York, Philadelphia, Connecticut, and South..... More
Providence, Rhode Island: Providence College / Rhode Island Bicentennial Foundation, 1980. Hardcover. Black cloth over boards. Gray pictorial dj. 151 pp. Profusely illustrated in BW. Cover title: American Silver 1670-1830: The Moore Collection at Providence College. Features early American silver from Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York, Philadelphia, Connecticut, and South..... More
Providence, Rhode Island: Providence College / Rhode Island Bicentennial Foundation, 1980. Hardcover. Black cloth over boards; Gray pictorial dj.; 151 pp.; Profusely illustrated in bw. Features early American silver from Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York, Philadelphia, Connecticut, and South Carolina; 189 pieces listed, with annotations; Hand numbered, no. 553. More