Description: Old English Plate, Ecclesiastical, Decorative, and Domestic, its Makers and Marks, by Wilfred Joseph Cripps. Eighth edition 1903 (although title page looks as if original date of 1902 has been changed by hand to 1903?), with 127 illustrations and upwards of 2,600 facsimiles of plate marks. Title page in red and black; frontispiece (with tissue guard) in sepia, 4 other black and white plates, 122 woodcuts. Chapters on gold/silver types and standards; guilds; marks; assay towns/offices; frauds and offences; ecclesiastical plate; decorative and domestic plate. Appendix A gives The Articles of plate (70 pages); Appendix B gives the Tables of the Date-Letters (27 Pages). Black endpapers. 521 pages including index. Green cloth boards have gilt design (mark) to the front and gilt lettering to spine. A couple of marks to the front board and a scuff to the spine. Corners are knocked; spine has minor crushing top and bottom. Interior has foxing throughout and spotting to the outer edges of the pages.Overall a good copy.
Price: 6.99 GBP
Location: Woodbridge
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Binding: Cloth
Place of Publication: London
Non-Fiction Subject: Gold and silver plate
Language: English
Special Attributes: Illustrated
Author: Wilfred Joseph Cripps
Publisher: John Murray
Original/Facsimile: Facsimile
Year Printed: 1903
