GOLDSMITHS & SILVERSMITHS
by Honour, Hugh
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1971. Quarto. 320 pp; b/w and color photographs and illustrations throughout; bibliography; index. Cloth with unclipped dustjacket. Near fine in near fine dustjacket. Former owner's name in pen on half-title page, no other markings of defects observed. Published as a companion volume to Hugh Honour's Cabinetmakers and Furniture Designers, this book consists of fifty studies of goldsmiths and silversmiths of ten nations and eleven centuries. They range in date from Vuolvinus, maker of a gold and silver altar in ninth-century Milan, to Wilhelm Wagenfeld, who studied at the Bauhaus and is one of the outstanding industrial designers of our time. Sculptors and painters who worked in precious metals are included, as well as the makers and designers of ordinary household plate.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carnegie Hill Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009373
- Title
- GOLDSMITHS & SILVERSMITHS
- Author
- Honour, Hugh
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- Decorative Arts Metalwork Metal Gold Silver
- Bookseller catalogs
- Silver; Decorative Arts; Metalwork;
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About the Seller
Carnegie Hill Books
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New York, New York
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