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Title: The Old Silver of American Churches
Author: Jones, E. Alfred
Description: lxxxvii, 566 pp. 145 collotype plates, other in-text illustrations. (Thick folio) 15¼x11¼, original green cloth lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Number 320 of 506 copies. First Edition."Over two thousand pieces of silver anterior to the year 1825 are described and more than a thousand are illustrated in this book. Of these about one thousand six hundred and forty were made by American silversmiths. The remainder consists chiefly of English plate, which numbers over two hundred and fifty pieces." - (page xix) A groundbreaking and influential work, beautifully rendered. Prospectus laid in.
Heading: Place Published: Letchworth, England
Publisher: Arden Press for the Society of Colonial Dames
Date Published: 1913