A COLLECTION OF EARLY ENGLISH SPOONS OF THE 15TH, 16TH & 17TH CENTY

by Thomas Staniford, Edwin Wilfrid Stanyforth

$3,500 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix · No longer available

London: Messrs. Crichton Bros, 1898. First and only edition of this remarkable and entirely photographic catalogue of a single collection. Very good. Item #54680 Featuring more than 200 spoons, with the earliest in the collection dating from 1488, EARLY ENGLISH SPOONS documents the famed Staniford English spoon collection. An unintentional artist's book or photobook, this elaborate album was produced in a very small

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