Author: J. E Foster; T. D. Atkinson
Title: An Illustrated Catalogue of the Loan Collection of Plate Exhibited in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge May 1895
Description: Cambridge, Deighton Bell & Co and Macmillan & Bowes, 1896. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce special limited edition of this catalogue of works church plate exhibited in 1895. The very scarce special limited edition of this work, number II of 42 copies printed on Japanese paper, of which only 35 were ever for sale. Of the ordinary edition, only 260 copies were published.With vignette illustrations and sixteen engraved plates, complete with their original tissue guards. Collated, complete.Published for the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, who in 1893 appointed a committee to make a catalogue of the church plate in the country, create an exhibition, and catalogue the works of that exhibition, held in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, in May 1895. This is that catalogue.With a small, neat, stamp of the library of the Assay Office of Birmingham to the front free endpaper, and no further library markings.With a bookplate to the front pastedown. In the publisher's original paper vellum spine with cloth covered boards. Discolouration to back strip, with shelf wear to spine head and tail. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

Keywords: Fitzwilliam Museum Church Plate Metalwork Cambridge Antiquarian Society Church Plate Not Stated


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