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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Profusely Illustrated (illustrator). First Edition. First edition.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Profusely Illustrated (illustrator). Dust jacket complete except price clipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Very light foxing on end papers. 255 pages lavishly ilustrated with more than 500 photographs, clean and tight. This authoritative and definitive work contains the first formal history of antique trays ever published. The book is lavishly illustrated with more than 500 photographs, seven of them in full color, including pictures of trays prized by museums and private collectors, as well as hundreds selected from the unique photographic collection of the late Esther Stevens Brazer. In addition there are fourteen half-page illustrations of reproductions of original trays created by Master Craftsmen of the Historical Society of Early American Decoration, Inc., all of which have met the rigorous award standards established by the Society. W. D. John, noted authority on Pontypool trays, says in the introduction to this book: "I am constantly amazed at the enthusiasm of the many members of the Historical Society who visit the Pontypool district in Wales each year, seeking every possible item of history and technique; and after seeing quite a number of the finished, decorated, and gilded trays of its "Award" standard, I feel that they surpass in every detail the original craftsmanship of the early Pontypool japanners and will surely become treasured heirlooms in many American homes of the future. There is nothing of a similar nature being undertaken in England or Wales." Size: 4to.