The Goldsmiths of Italy; Some Account of Their Guilds, Statutes, and Work
London: Martin Hopkins and Company, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. Small Folio. xv, 182pp., xxi plates. Original blue clothe with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Top edges gilt. Color frontispiece tipped in. Compiled from the published papers, notes, and other materiel collected by the late Sidney J. A. Churchill, British Consul-General, Palermo and Naples. Contains list of plates at front and includes chapters on the goldsmiths of Rome, the Papal patronage of the goldsmiths, Cellini, Caradosso, and other master-craftsmen, the goldsmiths of Tuscany, the work of Pistoiese, Sienese, and Aretine artists, Florentine artists, the goldsmiths of Perugia, Bologna, Milan, Turin, Bergamo, Venice, and statutes and the sumptuary laws and peasant jewellery. Illustrated with twenty one plates in lithography. Contains appendices of early statutes, a bibliography Rome, original sources and statutes other than Rome, and a general bibliography at rear. Binding with light wear along edges and some rubbing. Few pencil marking on page 64. Binding in overall good+, interior in very good condition. g+ to vg. Item #43946
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