Search Results: pewter and the amateur collector by gale edwards j

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Good with no dust jacket. 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Some wear to covers, residue stuck on back in two places. Browning of edges and endpapers. .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. Hardcover. Very Good. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. Very Good. No DJ. Ex-Library book with a few library marks otherwise clean unmarked pages. Tight spine. Wear and fraying to the book edges, especially near the spine. Illustrated with 43 photos. 97 pages. Great reference book for the collector. "A book for all admirers of fine pewter ware, and particularly for the amateur collector. A history of pewter is briefly treated, with an account of the chief makers of pewter and their marks, and a description of characteristic pieces. For the first time, the work of the early emigrant pewterers who settled in the American colonies, which exists in considerable quantities, receives thorough treatment." ABCCC

New York: Scribner, 1909. hardcover. very good. Frontispiece, and 42 other black and white plates. 97pp. Tall 8vo, gilt lettered green cloth (part of outside front hinge rubbed), t.e.g. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. Very good.<br/><br/>

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

London, England: Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society, 1910. Hardbound. VG / Good, Some spine end wear, former owner's name inside cover. Pages clean, somewhat age-darkened. Dust jacket faded along spine and extremities, tears with some loss along head.. Red embossed cloth with silver decoration and gilt titling, top edge, blue dust jacket. xii, [2], 97 pp. 43 black and white plates illustrating representative specimens of pewter. "A book for all admirers of fine pewter ware, and particularly for the amateur collector. A history of pewter is briefly treated, with an account of the chief makers of pewter and their marks, and a description of characteristic pieces. For the first time, the work of the early emigrant pewterers who settled in the American colonies, which exists in considerable quantities, receives thorough treatment." (From the dust jacket of the 1910 edition.).

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.