Author: CHOATE, SHARR WITH BONNIE CECIL DEMAY
Title: Creative Gold and Silversmithing: Jewelry, Decorative Metalcraft
Description: New York: Crown Publishers, 1979. First Edition. Thirteenth Printing; Hardcover. ISBN: 0517543095. B & W & color; 7 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 1"; ii, 298 pages; Hard cover Is green with wheat colored spine with brown lettering. Light rubbing, sunning, scuffing to boards. Previous owner's name neatly written inside front cover, dated Sept 1979. DJ has light rubbing, scuffing, sunning, shelfwear; in a mylar cover. Illustrated with color plates and b/w photographs and drawings. "Here is the definitive book on jewelry-making and other customized pieces of metalcraft, covering many hundreds of how-to-drawings and photographs. It is a must for beginning gold- and silversmiths and indispensable reference for the experienced craftsman-artist...Sharr Choate, expert metal-smith, gem cutter, artist and photographer and Bonnie De May, writer, introduce their work with a discussion of design and the many sources of design ideas, especially in nature Itself..." Appendix; Bibliography; index.. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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