Hall marks on gold and silver plate, . illustrated with revised tables of annual date letters employed in the assay offices of England, Scotland and Ireland, and a fac-simile of a copper-plate of makers' marks at Goldsmiths' Hall. To which is now added. A history of l'orfévrerie française. ... By William Chaffers ...
William Chaffers (1811-1892)
Category
Books
Date
1883
Materials
bookcloth, paper
Measurements
262 x 165 mm; 33 mm (thickness)
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3088321
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4],v,[3],322p., plates (1 fold.) . ill.. . 26 cm.. Bookseller's manuscript price of 9/- on flyleaf.. Provenance: Bookseller's ticket on pastedown: 'F.& W. Dodsworth, Booksellers & Stationers, 17, Collingwood Street, Newcastle-on-Tyne.' Twentieth-century pictorial armorial bookplate, a re-working of an earlier William Bell Scott pictorial Trevelyan bookplate (Franks 29799) of Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan (1797-1879), lettered: Charles & Mary Trevelyan [i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (1870-1958), & Mary Katharine, (m.1904).] Arms: Trevelyan impaling Bell. Not in Franks.. Binding: Publisher's brown cloth; gilt lettered.
Provenance
Gift from Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan 3rd Bt
Makers and roles
William Chaffers (1811-1892)