Silver (Pelican books)

First printing.Cover is rubbed, creased and lightly stained. Pages are tanning on the edges but not brittle.The first chapter is devoted to the general properties, discovery, processing and working of gold and silver, the two precious metals first known to man. The remaining chapters deal with successive convenient periods, and are all divided into three parts. Each begins with a general introduction dealing with external forces, political, economic, and social, which affected the art of the plate-worker, and with some of the principal goldsmiths; little is known of their personalities.

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Publisher: Penguin

Year: 1956-01-01

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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