[Rarebooks] fs: Tailors & Merchants & Wire... OH MY!!

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

Fry, Sir Frederick Morris, & R.T.D. Sayle. THE CHARTERS OF THE MERCHANT 
TAYLORS' COMPANY. London; Printed for private circulation: 1937. In 1935 
they opened the box containing the charters of the Merchant Taylors Company 
and discovered that the historic documents needed dusting and cleaning. The 
event also begged for a history of the Company and its charters to be 
written, and so this one was, by the former Master and the former Warden of 
the Company. Everything you wanted to know about the history of tailoring 
in London through the ages, but were afraid to ask... Hardcover. 9"x11.75", 
ix + 62 pages, 8 b/w folding plates; light wear, some rubbing at 
extremities; a nice copy. [05578] $175.00


Stewart, Horace. HISTORY OF THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF GOLD AND SILVER 
WYRE-DRAWERS AND OF THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE INDUSTRY WHICH THE 
COMPANY REPRESENTS. London; printed for the Company by The Leadenhall 
Press: 1891. The Company made gold and silver thread for use in embroidery 
and fine fashions. This history not only speaks of charters and dinners and 
Company officers, but of the history of the trade itself through English 
history. Hardcover. 8"x10.5", xvi + 140 pages, 3 plates, and many 
headpieces illustrating scenes from the history of the Company, as well as 
decorated initial letters. Original blue cloth with gilt titles and the 
arms of the Company on the cover; light cover soil; contents with some 
light foxing, a little soil, etc, hinges shaken. With a nicely penned 1955 
birthday inscription to a member of the London Company on the endpaper. 
[06334] $350.00

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