Author: Wilfred Joseph Cripps
Title: Old English Plate Ecclesiastical, Decorative, and Domestic: Its Makers and Marks
Description: London, John Murray, 1894. Cloth. A bright copy of this delightful history of the English plate by Wilfred Joseph Cripps. The fifth edition, revised. Exploring the history of the decorative, domestic, and ecclesiastical uses of the old English plate, from the mediaeval guilds of France ad England and the various marks of makers through history. Written by Wilfred Joseph Cripps. Illustrated with one hundred and twenty two illustrations in text and 2,500 facsimiles of plate marks and frontispiece. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally very smart with light shelf wear, bumped to head and tail of spine and extremities. Faint previous ownership inscription to recto front blank leaf. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .

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