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G. Bell and Sons, Published 1955. Hardcover, 118 pp. plus 40 plates; 22 cm; First Edition; illustrated with 90 black-and-white photographs on plates and 15 line drawings and makers' marks in text.
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Condition & notes
In Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Blue cloth-covered boards with silver lettering on spine. Mild shelf and edge wear, with some bumping to edges and corners and some mild toning to edges. Binding tight. Small bookseller's address stamp (Acres of Books, Long Beach, Calif.) on front pastedown; previous owner's name with "Ex Libris" in green ink on front free endpaper. Endpapers more heavily toned; pages otherwise mildly toned but unmarked. Blue illustrated dust jacket (front: lidded pewter flagon; spine: pewter spoon; design by Edgar Holloway) with a 1-inch tear at top edge of front panel near spine, a few smaller nicks and tears, and creasing along edges. Moderate overall shelf and edge wear, with some color loss along front and rear panels and spine; toning and soiling to rear panel. Some ink offset from front free endpaper onto front flap. Price (22s. 6d. net) intact on front flap. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Collector's handbook to English, Scottish, Irish and Channel Islands pewter from the reign of Elizabeth I to the early years of Victoria. Michaelis, Honorary Librarian of the Society of Pewter Collectors and an Honorary Member of the Pewter Collectors' Club of America, draws extensively on the records of the Worshipful Company of Pewterers of London to date types and gauge the relative rarity of surviving pieces. Chapters on plates and dishes, drinking vessels, measures, candlesticks, salts and spoons, porringers and bleeding bowls, ecclesiastical pewter, decoration and makers' marks, with a final chapter on collecting. The plates show pieces from the Guildhall Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum and private collections, including the author's own, and a pair of Elizabethan saucers (c.1570) from Hampton Court Palace, photographed by permission of the Queen. Contents: Preface; List of Illustrations; History and General; Plates, Dishes and Chargers; Drinking Vessels; Measures; Candlesticks, Salts and Spoons; Porringers, Bleeding Bowls, Caudle Cups, etc.; Ecclesiastical Pewter: Flagons, Chalices, Patens, Alms Dishes, etc.; Miscellaneous Objects in Pewter; Decoration on Pewter; Makers' Marks; On Collecting; Bibliography; Index; Plates.