Provincial Pewterers by R. F. Homer and David W. Hall

Description

This book is the currently-definitive study of English provincial pewter and pewterers, researched and written by two of the foremost scholars of pewter from the United Kingdom.
From the fly leaf:  "The history of the rise and decline of this traditional craft in the West Midlands, the Severn Valley and Wales, and of its transition to a manufacturing industry in 19th-century Birmingham, has been the subject of 5 years research by the authors.  They have based their study on contemporaneous material including wills, inventories, guild records, surviving business documents, newly discovered information in the archives of the Worshipful Company of Pewterers and on the pewterware itself.  The book identifies some seven hundred pewterers and braziers . . . ."
In sum--a comprehensive history of the provincial pewterers of Great Britain especially those located in Shrewsbury, Oswestry, Ludlow, Worcester, Hereford, Birminghamand other small cities
London, Phillimore, 1985. Hardcover with dust jacket, 7 1/2" x 10", 157 pages, 46 black and white photos, tables of marks, name index of pewterers and braziers. A comprehensive history of the pewterers of Great Britain especially those located in Shrewsbury, Oswestry, Ludlow, Worcester, Hereford, Bewdley, Birmingham, Walsall, and other, smaller cities.
Excellent
condition.