Author: Richard Edgcumbe
Title: The Art of the Gold Chaser in Eighteenth-Century London
Description: Oxford, Oxford University Press , 2000. First edition. Cloth. A comprehensive work on Gold Chasers in Eighteenth Century London, with a signed slip by the author and copious illustrations. A first edition copy of this work on The Art of the Gold Chaser in Eighteenth-Century London.Signed by the author on a sperate V&A slip to Gerald, with love and thanks for contributing the most interesting parts to this. Richard 27/9/01. This being Gerald Taylor, who was the superior to Richard Edgcumbe's thesis on embossed watchcases which was completed in 1980. This book is the first substantial account of the chasers of watchcases and gold boxes, their origins, training and techniques, sources of their designs and their relationship to their patrons. With one hundred and thirty nine figures and twenty five colour plates to the rear of the volume. Collated, complete. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, lovely. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. In the original unclipped dust wrapper which is also lovely. Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Fine/Fine.

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