HONOUR, HUGH — Goldsmiths & silversmiths

London: Putnam 1971 First Edition. ADDED Note "With the compliments.."South African Embassy The Hague 320 p., num. Ills., index HARDCOVER: (Bound in the original cloth. Dustjacket. VERY GOOD) This standard work includes accounts of men who played a part in the industrialization of the silver trade - Matthew Boulton and George Richards Elkington (the inventors of electroplating) in England, Charles Christofle in France and Henry Gooding Reed in the United States. The attempts to revive craftsmanship in the nineteenth century are analyzed. The book also reveals how each craftsman was influenced by and sometimes influenced - stylistic changes in the other arts. The photographs, many of which have been specially taken for this book, show a representative selection of the gold and silver objects made by or in the workshops of the various great metalworkers. Illustrating notable pieces in public and private collections in Europe and the United States, they provide a vivid account of the development of the goldsmiths' art from the Carolingian period to the present day.