GOOD to VERY GOOD CONDITION

This sale is for a VICTORIAN hardback edition entitled “The Silversmith’s Handbook,” subtitled “Containing Full Instructions for the Alloying and Working of Silver,” including “The Different Modes of Refining and Melting the Metal; Its Solders; The Preparation of Imitation Alloys; Methods of manipulation; Prevention of Waste; Instructions for Improving and Finishing the Surface of the Work Together with Other Useful Information and Memoranda,” by George E. Gee, Goldsmith and Silversmith, with 40 illustrations and tables.

It was published by Crosby Lockwood and Son, of London, in 1890 and is the Third Edition.

The contents include:

·       Silver

·       Sources of Silver

·       The Assay of Silver Ores

·       The Cupellation of Silver Ores

·       The Alloys of Silver

·       Various Qualities of Silver

·       Silver Solders: their Uses and Applications

·       On the Melting of Silver

·       On the Working of Silver

·       Enriching the Surfaces of Silver

·       Imitation Silver Alloys

·       Economical Process

·       Licences and Duties (at the time!)

·       Useful Information for the Trade

The book measures 6.8 inches x 4.75 inches and has 221 pages (including illustrations). 

The book is in good neat condition for its age, with minor wear/bumps and is a little grubby/faded to the original cloth hardback cover, with a little light foxing to the rims. There are NO inscriptions/book-plates and NO other ink or pencil markings in the book. The binding is very good with no loose or missing pages.  There is no dust-jacket.

A wonderfully illustrated VICTORIAN edition.

COMBINED POSTAGE - ALL BIDDERS: We offer 20% off the total postage & packing/‘shipping’ for additional items after the cost of the heaviest book – please wait for a combined invoice.

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Buyer to pay postage & packing

For UK Postage: 2nd Class/Parcels = £2.95;

or 1st Class = £3.90

European Union Postage: = 6.95 GB Pounds

USA Postage: Air Mail (USA) = 13.45 GB Pounds

Rest of the World Postage: Air Mail (Anywhere else in the World) = 10.70 GB Pounds

Surface Mail (Anywhere in the World) = 13.20 GB Pounds

Unwinsbooks have held down shipping prices from 2013-2020 in spite of small increases in postage costs.  However, Royal Mail Prices dramatically changed on 1 July 2020, as a result of exceptional cost increases outside of their control, so we are reluctantly having to pass on pricing increases for parcels being sent overseas (primarily USA, New Zealand, Australia and the Rest of the World). 

These costs are a direct result of: 

• An increase of more than 100% in the fees the US Postal Service (USPS) charges for the delivery of international mail.

• Securing air freight at inflated market costs due to a 95% reduction in air passenger flights globally. This has not affected domestic or postage within the EU.

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