OLD ENGLISH SILVER
Written by W.W. Watts
Published by Ernest Benn
in 1924
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- HISTORY GENERAL
- ANTIQUES
- COLLECTING
- SILVER
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OLD ENGLISH SILVER
Written by W.W. Watts.
Stock no. 679554
1st.
1924.
Hardback.
Large format.
Very good condition.
Large format. Grey cloth, gilt title to spine. 149 pages. 134 tissue-guarded b/w plates. A few light foxspots to contents, foxing to outer page edges. Corners rubbed and bumped.
Front cover
Contents
- Prefatory Note
- List of Illustrations
- Bibliography
- Introduction
- Chapter I. Goldsmiths' Guilds and Societies
- Chapter II. Causes of Disappearance of Old Silver
- Chapter III. The Anglo-Saxon Period
- Chapter IV. The Medieval Period
- Chapter V. The 16th Century. The Tudor Period
- Chapter VI. The 17th Century, to the End of the Commonwealth Period
- Chapter VII. The 17th Century, from the Restoration until the Year 1700
- Chapter VIII. The 18th Century, the End of the Reign of George II
- Chapter IX. The 18th and 19th Centuries, the Reigns of George III and George IV
- Chapter X. Ecclesiastical Plate: Pre-Reformation
- Chapter XI. Ecclesiastical Plate: Post-Reformation to the End of the Commonwealth Period
- Chapter XII. Ecclesiastical Plate: from the Restoration of Charles II
- Hallmarks
- Index, Owners
- Index, General