This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ... it.obviously was desirable that it should be limited in the alloy of which large vessels were made if they were successfully to serve their ostensible purpose. Of all English and continental ware which the collector is likely to acquire, it is in the public-house measures that lead will be found in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ... it.obviously was desirable that it should be limited in the alloy of which large vessels were made if they were successfully to serve their ostensible purpose. Of all English and continental ware which the collector is likely to acquire, it is in the public-house measures that lead will be found in greatest excess, and it is evident that a certain form of commercial sense clouded the usual acumen of the makers in this respect. As the marking of and marks on pewter plate are matters closely connected with the history of the guilds, this subject is treated in a succeeding chapter notwithstanding the fact that it is equally connected with the manner of making the old ware. That pewter was made by the masters of the craft, lovingly, is evinced equally in the beauty of form of most of the ware and in the workmanship displayed, a workmanship that has withstood careless handling, for centuries, of articles never especially cherished for the intrinsic value of the metal of which they were made. In the simple forms of nearly all standing vessels, with their proportionate values and gradations, one finds oftentimes a greater charm than in the richer and more highly decorated utensils of silver, and plate viii Portion of an English Plate showing results of the heavy efflorescent-like corrosion sometimes found on the ware. In this ease the plate has been cleaned, and the erosion of the surface disclosed (here shown at actual size) illustrates the reason for rejecting articles which are corroded beyond the degree of oxidisation normal to old and neglected ware. The reproduction is deceptive, at first glance, in that the defects of the surface appear to be raised, which was true of the efflorescent-like substance originally on the ware, but as this...
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Very good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. 97 p. Includes illustrations. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. Hardcover. Very Good. No DJ. Ex-Library book with a few library marks otherwise clean unmarked pages. Tight spine. Wear and fraying to the book edges, especially near the spine. Illustrated with 43 photos. 97 pages. Great reference book for the collector. "A book for all admirers of fine pewter ware, and particularly for the amateur collector. A history of pewter is briefly treated, with an account of the chief makers of pewter and their marks, and a description of characteristic pieces. For the first time, the work of the early emigrant pewterers who settled in the American colonies, which exists in considerable quantities, receives thorough treatment." ABCCC
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Very good. Frontispiece, and 42 other black and white plates. 97pp. Tall 8vo, gilt lettered green cloth (part of outside front hinge rubbed), t.e.g. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. Very good.
Publisher:
Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society
Published:
1910
Alibris ID:
17967464916
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VG / Good, Some spine end wear, former owner's name inside cover. Pages clean, somewhat age-darkened. Dust jacket faded along spine and extremities, tears with some loss along head. Red embossed cloth with silver decoration and gilt titling, top edge, blue dust jacket. xii, [2], 97 pp. 43 black and white plates illustrating representative specimens of pewter. "A book for all admirers of fine pewter ware, and particularly for the amateur collector. A history of pewter is briefly treated, with an account of the chief makers of pewter and their marks, and a description of characteristic pieces. For the first time, the work of the early emigrant pewterers who settled in the American colonies, which exists in considerable quantities, receives thorough treatment." (From the dust jacket of the 1910 edition.).
