[Rarebooks] FS: Antique English Sheffield Silver Plate - 1912 Classic by Bradbury

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

"History of Old Sheffield Plate, Being an Account of the Origin, Growth 
and Decay of the Industry and of the Antique Silver and White or 
Britannia Metal Trade with chronological lists of makers' marks and 
numerous illustrations of specimens"

By Frederick Bradbury. Published in London by the Macmillan and Company 
in 1912.

Nearly a hundred years after its first publication, this book remains 
the standard reference on the famed Sheffield plating firms of England 
and their wares. Himself a Freeman in the Worshipful Company of Cutlers, 
Bradbury brought personal knowledge of the silver manufacturing industry 
to his writing, and spent years researching the origins and history of 
the Sheffield trade in dusty record rooms and little-used archives. He 
covers the invention and early manufacture of Sheffield Plate, the 
history of the Trade, its "processes, practices and inventions", the 
workshops, tools & materials, and innovations, as well as offering 
advice to collectors, notes on the dating of specimens, and lists of 
makers and their marks.

Hardcover. 9.5"x12", xiii + 539 pages, black & white illustrations. 
Publisher's blue & gilt covers. Some cover wear, corners bumped, several 
small abraded spots on the spine, minor soil, endpapers soiled, minor 
internal soil. Signed by Bradbury. $75

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