Copper and its alloys were an integral part of Americans' lives from the time of earliest settlement. Using the extensive collection at Winterthur as examples, Fennimore explores the importance of these metal for early Americans. A broad cross section of objects is included and linked to extensive manuscript and early published sources on both sides of the Atlantic. The book is organized into three parts: essays, color plates, and catalogue entries. The first three chapters cover mining and manufacturing techniques, the ...
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Copper and its alloys were an integral part of Americans' lives from the time of earliest settlement. Using the extensive collection at Winterthur as examples, Fennimore explores the importance of these metal for early Americans. A broad cross section of objects is included and linked to extensive manuscript and early published sources on both sides of the Atlantic. The book is organized into three parts: essays, color plates, and catalogue entries. The first three chapters cover mining and manufacturing techniques, the vast marketing network through which raw materials, and finished goods moved, and the factors that governed the marking of metal by their makers. These essays, followed by color plates, provide a background and introduce the entries that illustrate and discuss more than 300 individual objects.
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Good. Minor shelf wear to extremities. Light scuffs and storage marks on jacket. Gentle foxing and tanning to page edges. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 472 p. Contains: Unspecified.
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VG/VG as new never read. Cinnamon cloth/oblong boards. Illustrated copper dj with black spine. 472 pp. with 322 items pictured in bw and 17 color plates. The first ever catalogue of a major collection of copper and its alloys. Organized by function into 6 sections: food and drink, heat, light, measurement, personal, and hardware. Includes American, English, Dutch, Swedish, German, Austrian, Swiss, French, and Far Eastern items. Each item fully annotated and with measurements and alloy percentages. An intriguing and informative catalogue.
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4to, hardcover. Fine condition in near fine dj. One short closed tear to dust jacket-only flaw. Covers and contents clean, unworn, no marking or writing. Binding squade and tight. 472 pp., illus.
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Fine/VG-(bookplate of former historian and Smithsonian curator inside fromt cover; small ding to top/center edge of dj) Cinnamon cloth/oblong boards. Illustrated copper dj with black spine. 472 pp. with 322 items pictured in bw and 17 color plates. The first ever catalogue of a major collection of copper and its alloys. Organized by function into 6 sections: food and drink, heat, light, measurement, personal, and hardware. Includes American, English, Dutch, Swedish, German, Austrian, Swiss, French, and Far Eastern items. Each item fully annotated and with measurements and alloy percentages. An intriguing and informative catalogue.
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Used; Very Good. Winterthur Museum. Used; Very Good. Winterthur Museum 1996 Hardcover. This book is in excellent unread condition. Pages are clean and unmarked. Jacket has very light wear. Book Condition; Very Good Jacket Condition; Very Good. 1996. HARDCOVER.
