New York: Tudor Pub. Co. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1948. Reprint. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; 7.40 X 5.10 X 0.80 inches; xxiv, 476 pages; Hard cover is blue cloth with silver lettering on spine. Light rubbing, bumping, scuffing and sunning to boards. Missing DJ. Pages are clean and tight. A reprint of the original 1917 edition. Lavishly illustrated with 325 b/w photographs. Bibliography; index. This massive biographical dictionary offers the most thorough study of a group of early American craftsmen published to date. It contains biographies of 296 silversmiths and jewelers who worked in Massachusetts prior to the American Revolution, records of more than 6000 examples of their work, and illustrations of 424 of their marks. It completes and amplifies research undertaken at Yale since the 1930s when John Marshall Phillips (1905 - 53) , the leading scholar of American silver of his generation, acquired the research notes of Francis Hill Bigelow (1859 - 1933) , a pioneer in the field. There are brief biographical notes on 93 craftsmen in allied trades, including watchmakers, clockmakers, and engravers, and a section on individuals previously misidentified as Massachusetts silversmiths, as well as essays on silversmiths and their tools, Boston silversmithing and jewelrymaking trades, and other Massachusetts silversmiths. A glossary of terms relating to tools and craft techniques and 193 additional illustrations complete the book. .

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Bookseller's Inventory #: 9712
Title: Historic Silver Of The Colonies And Its Makers
Author: Bigelow, Francis Hill
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Tudor Pub. Co
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1948
Keywords: Antiques;, Collectibles;, Silversmithing;, Metalworking;, Colonial America;, Craftsmanship;, Silverwork;, Silverware;, Decorative Arts;

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Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
PUB: Common abbreviation for 'published'
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...