Laughlin, Ledlie Irwin — Pewter in America: Its Makers and Their Marks

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940. Hardcover. Half-leather calf over worn marbled boards. Vol. 1: xvii, (3), 138 pp. with 58 pp. illustrating over 150 items. Vol. 2: plates 59-78. pp. [9], 1-242. Traces development of pewter in England and America. Chapters cover the business of a pewterer, pewter marks, household pewter, ecclesiastical pewter, and pewterers of Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts Bay. Altough re-printed and somewhat revised, this original printing of the first edition is a must-have for any library on Pewter or American Decorative arts. Good, they exhibit wear but still have a regal appearance in their worn leather bindings .