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MARKS OF AMERICAN SILVERSMITHS IN THE INESON-BISSELL COLLECTION
by Belden, Louise Conway
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0813907985
- ISBN 13
- 9780813907987
- Seller
-
Williamsburg, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Charlottesville: Winterthur / University Press of Virginia, 1980. (12), 505 pages. Identifies 1,700 marks of American silversmiths. Selected from items in the Ineson-Bissell Collection of Small Silver Objects in the Winterthur Museum, mostly spoons but also other silver items. All were made by American silversmiths between 1670 and 1870, with more than 1400 persons identified. A nice tight copy. Sunning to edges of cover; just a smattering of foxing to top edge; toning to edges of endpapers, with non-authorial inscription on ffep. DJ has small creases along spine and top edge, with some small closed tears along top edge as well. White rear and flaps are toned. In new mylar.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.
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- Bookseller
- Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- H3953
- Title
- MARKS OF AMERICAN SILVERSMITHS IN THE INESON-BISSELL COLLECTION
- Author
- Belden, Louise Conway
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0813907985
- ISBN 13
- 9780813907987
- Publisher
- Winterthur / University Press of Virginia
- Place of Publication
- Charlottesville
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- Silver Marks Antiques American Silversmiths
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiques and Collectibles;
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Terms of Sale
Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
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About the Seller
Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
Biblio member since 2004
Williamsburg, Virginia
About Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
Our office, located in historic Williamsburg, Virginia, is open by appointment or by chance. We are antiquarian booksellers who buy and sell carefully selected books for collectors and researchers in many genre. We also sell important autographs and photographs as well as original art, including wood engravings by Winslow Homer and J. J. Lankes; lithographs by Miró, Matisse, Calder, Wengenroth, and others; and works from the American Etching Revival. You can reach us by telephone: (757)378-5400; or by email: twbooks1@cox.net.
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