Author: William Babcock
Title: A Touch-Stone for Gold and Silver Wares, or a Manual for Goldsmiths, and All Other Persons, Whether Buyers, Sellers, or Wearers of Any Manner of Goldsmiths Work: Discovering the Rules Belonging to That Mystery, and the Way and Means to Know Adulterated Wares from Those Made of the True Standard Allay, and What Are the True Weights Appointed for Weighing of the Same: Together with the Several Statutes Now in Force for Regulating Abuses Committed in That Craft: And the Charter of the Goldsmiths Incorporation Taken from the Record and Truly Rendered Into English: To Which Is Annexed the Laws in Force Against Brass Hilts, and Brass Buckles, & C. : And Directions for Discovering the Counterfeit Coyn of This Kingdom: And Also a Catalogue of the Forraign Coyns, with Particular Weights, Allay, and Value of Each Coyn
Description: London, John Bellinger and Thomas Bassett, 1677. Leather bound. Bound in brown leather boards; bw illustrated frontispiece; double frame bordered title page, (28), 115 pp, one additional bw plate. Very Scarce! Touch stone for gold and silver wares. The intent of the frontispiece- pg (3). Includes index. As-Is (in need of rebinding as it has significant shelfwear to leather boards, front and rear cover unattached, handwritten notes on ffep and in margins of several pages,ffep is torn in half with bottom half missing, expected age toning throughout but text is clear) .

Keywords: European Decorative Arts ; Gold and Silver ; ; Fine Metalwork - European


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