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THE VALUES OF OLD ENGLISH SILVER & SHEFFIELD PLATE, FROM THE FIFTEENTH
TO THE NINETEENTH CENTURIES.
By J. W. CALDICOTT. Edited by J. STARKIE GARDNER, F.S.A. 3,000 Selected
Auction Sale Records; 1,600 Separate Valuations; 660 Articles.
Illustrated with 87 Collotype Plates. 300 pages. Royal 4to Cloth. Price
42/- net.
"A most comprehensive and abundantly illustrated volume....
Enables even the most inexperienced to form a fair opinion of
the value either of a single article or a collection, while as
a reference and reminder it must prove of great value to an
advanced student."--_Daily Telegraph._
HISTORY OF OLD ENGLISH PORCELAIN AND ITS MANUFACTURES.
With an Artistic, Industrial and Critical Appreciation of their
Productions. By M. L. SOLON, the well-known Potter-Artist and
Collector. In one handsome volume. Royal 8vo, well printed in clear
type on good paper, and beautifully illustrated with 20 full-page
Coloured Collotype and Photo-Chromotype Plates and 48 Collotype Plates
on Tint. Artistically bound. Price 52/6 net.
"Mr. Solon writes not only with the authority of the master of
technique, but likewise with that of the accomplished artist,
whose exquisite creations command the admiration of the
connoisseurs of to-day."--_Athenæum._
MANX CROSSES; or The Inscribed and Sculptured Monuments of the Isle of
Man, from about the end of the Fifth to the beginning of the Thirteenth
Century.
By P. M. C. KERMODE, F.S.A.Scot., &c. The illustrations are from
drawings specially prepared by the Author, founded upon rubbings, and
carefully compared with photographs and with the stones themselves.
In one handsome Quarto Volume 11-1/8 in. by 8-5/8 in., printed on Van
Gelder hand-made paper, bound in full buckram, gilt top, with special
design on the side. Price 63/- net. The edition is limited to 400
copies.
"We have now a complete account of the subject in this very
handsome volume, which Manx patriotism, assisted by the
appreciation of the public in general, will, we hope, make a
success."--_Spectator._
DERBYSHIRE CHARTERS IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LIBRARIES AND MUNIMENT ROOMS.
Compiled, with Preface and Indexes, for Sir Henry Howe Bemrose, Kt.,
by ISAAC HERBERT JEAYES, Assistant Keeper in the Department of MSS.,
British Museum. Royal 8vo, cloth, gilt top. Price 42/- net.
"The book must always prove of high value to investigators in
its own recondite field of research, and would form a suitable
addition to any historical library."--_Scotsman._
SOME DORSET MANOR HOUSES, WITH THEIR LITERARY AND HISTORICAL
ASSOCIATIONS.
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