First Published in 2005. Silver is unique among the decorative arts in that its raw material is both inherently valuable and infinitely reusable. Its ownership has been a social bench-mark and its form has exercised the skills of sculptors, designers, chasers and engravers, but ultimately it could be, and normally was, melted down and refashioned quite without sentiment. Because of this constant recycling, the survival of any individual object is quite random and unrelated to its uniqueness or otherwise in its period. ...
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First Published in 2005. Silver is unique among the decorative arts in that its raw material is both inherently valuable and infinitely reusable. Its ownership has been a social bench-mark and its form has exercised the skills of sculptors, designers, chasers and engravers, but ultimately it could be, and normally was, melted down and refashioned quite without sentiment. Because of this constant recycling, the survival of any individual object is quite random and unrelated to its uniqueness or otherwise in its period. Hitherto plate historians have focused on individual objects almost to the exclusion of the context - social or economic - from which they came but now that context is seen as crucial in understanding historic plate. So in the first section of this book each chapter considers contemporary attitudes and usage.
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First edition (hardback). 8vo (25cm by 20cm), xii, 366pp. 8pp plates (including 4pp in colour), 137 text figures. Original blue cloth, dustwrapper. The book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. ISBN 0047480041.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 9x7x1; Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. A presentation of silver in a historical context. Bound in blue cloth with silver lettering on spine. Contains numerous photographs throughout the text. Indexed. 366 pp. Pictorial dust jacket. Book is in near fine condition with very light foxing and blemishes on page edges. Dust jacket is in near fine condition with minor wearing around the edges. Full refund if not satisfied.
