[Rarebooks] fs: Maryland Silversmiths, 1715-1830

[Back Creek Books]

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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 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.
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