With mary grace carpenter (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine Copy. Fine copy hardcover with dustjacket, xix + 296 pp, text and B/W illustrations throughout, 4 4/C plates.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st. light foxing to edges of text block, small bookstore label at bottom of front pastedown, dust jacket with tiny tear at bottom of front panel and tiny tear at top of back panel. Dust jacket in clear protector. Illustrated with drawings from original sketchbooks of designs, more than three hundred black and white photographs, and four color plates. 296pp 2.57lb 10.2x7.6x0.9in.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine condition. Very Good dust jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. New York:: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1978. 7.5" wide by 10.25" tall. A bright, shiny, clean, square, tight, and unmarked copy. The Dust Jacket is NOT price clipped (25.00). No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. Pages are fresh and crisp. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Bound in the original blue cloth, lettered in silver on the spine, and in blind on the front cover. Lavishly illustrated with drawings from original sketchbooks of designs, 4 full-color plates, and over 300 b/w photographs. Appendices: A Note on the Care of Silver. Annotated list of Tiffany Source Material. Bibliography. Index. From the Dust Jacket: "The nineteenth-century silverware of Tiffany & Co. has an important place in the history of decorative arts, the significance of which is being increasingly recognized among collectors and museums for the high quality of the silver, the inventiveness of the designs, and the marvelous range of forms in which they were made. This definitive study of that silver traces the history of the company. All the Tiffany nineteenth- and twentieth-century flatware patterns are described, as well as the presentation silver, swords and guns, trophies, and the prize-winning designs. There is a comprehensive chapter on marks." Has 14 chapters: Changing Views on Victorianism; The Early Years: 1837-1867; The Leading Silversmiths; The Sumptuous Table: Hollow Ware; The Sumptuous Table: Flatware; Silver Out of the Dining Room; Presentation Silver; Presentation Swords and Guns; Yachting and Other Sporting Trophies; The Japanese and Other Exotic Influences; Electroplated Silver; The Making of Tiffany Silver; Tiffany Marks; The Twentieth Century. . First Printing of the First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine condition./Very Good dust jacket. xix, 296pp. .…

296 pp including index, large octavo, tinted end-papers, coloured photographic plates, b&w photographic illustrations, very good copy in like, pictorial, price-clipped d/j.