Author: WENHAM, EDWARD GORDON
Title: The Practical Book of American Silver
Description: Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; 9.0 X 6.1 X 0.9 inches; xvii, 275 pages; Hard cover has blue spine with silver lettering. DJ has rubbing, scuffing, bumping, sunning, edge wear, nicks and creases around edges, but is entire; in a mylar cover. Pages are clean and tight. Illustrated with 16 b/w photographs and 196 b/w drawings. "Each of the different periods and its prevailing style has been described in a manner to make it easy to identify. Moreover, several largely overlooked aspects of Colonial silver has been discussed, among them the essentially American features peculiar to the different schools, and the customs and manners of the time as recorded in the household silver..." Bibliography; index.. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

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