Description and condition:

Brown boards hardback, dustcover, 8vo, 205pp, index, glossary, bibliography, b/w illustrations.

Good to very good, faint mark to half-title page, mild foxing to outer edges, else nice bright clean pages. In very good, protected, dustcover.

Contents:

Introduction. Spoons in general: classification, manufacture, hallmarking, fakes and forgeries. The Mediterranean: from the dawn of civilisation until the 18th century. Northern Europe: the beginnings of characteristic styles. National Development from the Renaissance until 1700: Britain, Scandinavia, Germany, Poland, France, Switzerland. The golden age in the Netherlands. The making of a diamond-point spoon. Brass foundry work in Mediaeval Italy.