Savage, George — Dictionary of Antiques

New York, Praeger Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. An apparent First Edition, First Printing from 1970, with several hundred photographs and drawings, printed on high-gloss paper. Entries about furniture, French furniture, glass, pottery, pewter, silver, jewelry, arms and armor, European tapestries and rugs and carpets, needle-work and embroidery, clocks and watches, Chinese "Lowestoft" and export porcelain, paintings and rare books, toby jugs, armorial china and glass, Wedgwood, Sheffield plate, American silver, Delft glass, Japanese armor, Paisley Shawls, fore-edge painting, old English mezzotints, Victoriana and others. Double-column texts, sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if lightly toned interior, with minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, not price-clipped, and protected by Mylar sheet. Decorated endpapers front and rear. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. ix, 1-534 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Near Fine,