[Rarebooks] FS: 4 on Silver and Gold

[Clare Murphy]

1.  JONES, E. ALFRED.  CATALOGUE OF THE PLATE OF MAGDALEN COLLEGE, 
OXFORD. London: Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford, 1940. 
Illustrated by 7 black and white plates. First edition. Navy blue 
cloth. 4to. [Plates plus 103 pgs] Very good.  $75.00 {73204}

2.  JONES, E. ALFRED.  OLD ENGLISH GOLD PLATE. London: Bemrose and 
Sons, 1907. Illustrated by 37 full-page black and white plates. First 
edition. Crimson cloth gilt, t.e.g. 4to, 10.5"x13". [text 35 pgs] 
Very good/Fair dust jacket. Some of the finest examples of goldwork 
ever produced in England are described and pictured here. Minor 
foxing to end papers and some soiling to boards. Scarce dust jacket 
has some large chips to edges.  $150.00 {73203}

3.  JONES, E. ALFRED.  GOLD AND SILVER AT WINDSOR CASTLE, THE. 
Letchworth, England : Arden Press, 1911. Illustrated by 103 full-page 
black and white plates. First edition. Limited to 285 copies, of 
which this is #149. Cloth gilt, t.e.g. Folio. [lxiv; 241 pgs] Very 
good. Gorgeous book with paper like turkish cotton bed sheets. Some 
fading to rear board and also some blistering to cloth. No foxing. 
Good and strong. Very large and heavy book.  $650.00 {73202}

4.  JONES, E. ALFRED.  OLD ENGLISH PLATE OF THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA, 
THE. Letchworth, England : Arden Press, 1909. Illustrated by 50 black 
and white full-page plates. Half morocco with cloth covered boards. 
Original binding. 4to. [lvi; 116 pgs] Very good. Beautiful heavy 
white paper. Contents fine, front board detached but present. A 
lovely book documenting the English plate that was held in the 
collection of the Tsar of Russia at the time of publication. This 
Tsar was Nicholas II, who lost his throne 8 years later and his life, 
a year after that, following The Russian Revolution.  $325.00 {73200}

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