[Rarebooks] fs: Maryland Silversmiths, 1715-1830

[Back Creek Books]

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We are pleased to offer:
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(No. 9319 )  Pleasants, J. Hall and Howard Sill (Foreword by Robert Alan 
Green). MARYLAND SILVERSMITHS, 1715-1830: WITH ILLUSTRATIONS OF THEIR SILVER 
AND THEIR MARKS AND WITH A FACSIMILE OF THE DESIGN BOOK OF WILLIAM FARIS.
Harrison, NY: Robert Allan Green, Publisher, 1972. Limited edition, Full 
cloth, Quarto, xiv, 324 pages, black and white photographs, text figures. 
Fine in a Fine Dust Jacket, Jacket in Mylar protector.
      SIGNED by publisher Robert Alan Green. The definitive study of 
Maryland silver with substantial biographies of the craftsmen, examples of 
their work, and their marks along with information on silversmith's 
apprentices, indentured silversmiths, and at least one working silversmith 
thought to have been a negro slave. Also includes a list of watch and clock 
makers who did not work in silver as well as a list of those who did. This 
reprint of the original 1930 edition was limited to 1,000 copies. Bound in 
dark green cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine titles. Jacket has a 
few slight edge wrinkles.    $275.00
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