An Illustrated History of English Plate Ecclesiastical and Secular in Which the Development of Form and Decoration in the Silver and Gold Work of the British Isles from the Earliest Known Examples to the Latest of the Georgian Period .Volume One

New York: Dover Publications. 1969. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good+ condition. No dustjacket. Illustrated with a coloured frontispiece and 1500 black and white plates/drawings. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 466 pages. A facsimile edition of the work originally published in 1911. Contents of this volume are organised under the following chapters: The Early British Period. Native Work in Britain and Ireland From about 1500 BC to about AD 200; The Roman Period. Plate Wrought by Roman or British Goldsmiths During the Roman Occupation of Britain. From about AD 50 to AD 400; The Anglo-Saxon Period. From about AD 500 to AD 1050; The Art of the Goldsmith in Ireland in the Middle Ages. From about AD 900 to about AD 1200; The Norman Period. From the Conquest to the end of the Twelfth Century; The Gothic Period. From about the end of the twelfth century to about 1525; The Period of the Renaissance. From about 1525 to the end of the reign of Elizabeth; The Early Stuart and Commonwealth Period; The Late Stuart Period; The Period of the Enforced Higher Standard for Plate 1697 to 1720; The Rococo Period. From about 1725 to about 1765; The Late Georgian Period (1765-1830); Objects Wrought in the British Isles and Dedicated to the Use of the Church; Chalices and Patens; Altar-Cruets, Spoons, Pyxes, Monstrances, Bells, Shrines, Candlesticks, Professional Crosses etc (Plate used in the English Church before the Reformation); Post-Reformation Communion Plate Communion Cups and Patens; Communion Flagons, Ewers, Basins, Altar Dishes, Candlesticks, and Alms Dishes. . Facsimile Edition. Hardback.