Author: Clifford, Helen
Title: Silver in London: The Parker and Wakelin Partnership, 1760-1776
Description: New Haven, Yale University Press, 2004. Hardcover. Blue boards with yellow stamped spine lettering, glossy navy and illustrated dust jacket with cream lettering. ix, 245 pp. BW and color illustrations. The firm of Parker and Wakelin was the foremost silversmith in London for much of the eighteenth century, supplying royalty, aristocracy, and gentry with both domestic and ceremonial plate. This fascinating book draws on the firm's records for this period to provide a remarkable account of patrons and their purchases and to investigate the social and economic structures on which the firm depended, revealing new information about the complex web of out-workers with specialist skills and raising questions of authorship. -Jacket. VG/Good (corner/edge wear and scuffing to dust jacket. Possible tears to dust jacket. Pages are clean) .

Keywords: European Decorative Arts, Silver, Parker and Wakelin ; Parker and Wakelin Silver ; ; Fine Metalwork - European


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