(New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917).

FIRST EDITION. Not only are there ample illustrations of the important objects of silver that made there way into churches in the early American colonies, in themselves "monuments" of American history, but for the first time in a very significant way, a discussion of silver used for purely domestic purposes including many examples discovered in private collections and previously unknown. There is a discussion of the craftsmen who made the vessels of both classes and of the names, donors and original owners. Many were governors or soldiers in the early colonies. Item #30563

First Edition. With interesting articles and a handwritten letter concerning the book and silver in an envelope at the front of the volume. With 325 illustrations from photographs Thick 8vo, publisher's original light-blue cloth, the upper cover and spine lettered in silver. xxiv, [2], 476, 6 ads. pp. A handsome and very well preserved copy.