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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. Gift message in front. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> For all English-speaking peoples the age of the Tudors and early Stuarts is one of the most glorious and fascinating epochs of history: yet although its silver has been admired and collected for more than two hundred years this book is the first fully-documented study of its history bringing out the central role of plate in Tudor and Stuart society. From the king to the yeoman the English aspired to own vessels of gold or silver for display and for use to embody magnificence or impress with wealth. In this major pioneering survey the glamour and splendour of plate are recreated from a wealth of contemporary documents and illustrations illuminating the attitudes of our ancestors to the art of the goldsmith and describing the extraordinary social spread of silver including cups cruets or cabinet objects. The cost of goldsmiths’ work its ornament and the idiosyncratic English response to the Renais- sance and to Mannerism are discussed. The Civil War has often been blamed for our lack of early silver this study drawing on previously unpublished research demonstrates the essential continuity of the demand for goldsmiths’ work in the 1640s and 1650s. (OS)