[London]: [188-].
Small folio, 30.5cm, 20ff., tipped in engraved heraldic devices & presentation inscriptions. Original half-balck morocco & dark grey cloth covered boards (modern brown cloth rebacked with new endpapers; corners worn; lower board corner cloth damp marked), loosely inserted blank billhead of Albert Barker Limited.

Albert Barker started his working life working for the silversmiths William Thornhill. He eventually became a partner before starting his own business c.1886 in New Bond Street. The business quickly gained royal patronage and a royal warrant as silversmith to the Queen and Prince of Wales and became limited in 1893. Offered here is an extensive company silversmiths design pattern book of some four hundred and fifty engraved heraldic devices & initials; presentation inscriptions, and decorative cartouches produced by the firm. Devices include those for the Shah of Persia; Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar; various British military devices; the 1889 Ascott Cup Aylesbury Steeplechase; sheild commemorating the 50th year of the reign of Queen Victoria, and a considerable many more. A good copy (blank fore-edges of a few leaves chipped with small loss).
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