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Phillimore & Co. [Published date: 1976]. Hard cover, 199 pp. No other printings listed. In good+ condition/ NO dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gold coat of arms on front and gold lettering on spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges and corners of covers with a bit of the color scuffed off at the corner tips and top and bottom of spine. Light overall spotting, aging and soiling to covers as well. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. Includes 8 plates of illustrations on high-gloss paper. The Worshipful Company of Founders of the City of London was one of the early medieval guilds formed to promote the interests of its members and to ensure high standards of quality and workmanship in articles of bronze and brass. The Founders' Company was granted its formative Ordinances by the Court of Lord Mayor and Aldermen on 29th July 1365. Their main purposes were to defend the craft against unfair competition, to assist its members in their work, to help those in distress and to promote and control education.Founders were workers in brass and brass alloys or tinplate known as "Iatten" or "laton", producing small cast articles such as candlesticks and pots and pans. Their workshops were situated in and around Lothbury, a street that still exists under that name.