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The manuscript, here shown in facsimile with commentary, was made by a clergyman in a bid for the patronage of an Elizabethan magnate. The earliest known English attempt at an original writing book, it combines scripts and ornament to emulate printed Continental writing books, with quoted texts to individual letters stressing the value of learning.

The book begins by the North Sea. It is a late summer's afternoon, and a bright sun has dispersed the greyness of the day. Two Englishmen are enjoying a swim off the Essex coast when all at once both have the feeling that they are back at the French seaside. They find themselves starting to tell each other of their youthful experiences of living in France. The adventures they narrate follow one after another like waves rolling onto the shore. Clive, coming from London, had found himself spending a year deep in the French countryside within sight of the western Pyrenees; John, hailing from Devon, had ended up living for a while in the City of Light within sight of the Folies Bergere. Outsiders though they were, they momentarily became part of French society, their adventures fuelled by the culinary delights of their adopted land. They tell their tales with humour and relish as they recall their initiation into the French way of life of decades ago - and how it shaped their own.

Inventories of fourteen great Irish country houses, three Dublin town houses and one London town house yield remarkable insights into the lifestyle of leading families across Ireland and the households that supported them. They record in detail the goods and chattels inherited, accumulated, or acquired for enjoyment or everyday use.

The political and social worlds of France, England and Vienna during the period which began with the French Revolution and ended with the Second Empire are engagingly seen through the eyes of a highly intelligent Scotswoman, Margaret Mercer Elphinstone, who weds Charles de Flahaut, a Napoleonic general, against the wishes of her admiral father.

This book examines the role of geometry in the design and manufacture of silverware. It suggests that many of the geometric forms that became popular in the early eighteenth century were in fact modelled on imported Asian ceramics and lacquer, some of which in turn were copying much earlier Chinese metal wares.

A remarkable private collection formed over the last thirty years is the focus of this richly illustrated book that introduces the reader to English silver from a little before the Tudor age (1485-1603) to the threshold of the Civil War (1642-51)

A catalogue of beautiful silver-gilt objects from England and France from makers such as Pierre Platel, Benjamin Smith, Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot, Martin-Guillaume

A magnificent collection of antique silver objects from England and France and Italy is presented in this unusual catalogue. Its tablet format signals the crucial role played by state-of-the-art electronic media in the service of silver collecting.

The first full history of Swaine Adeney Brigg, the London makers of luxury leather goods and umbrellas.

Accompanying the first-ever exhibition devoted to English neo-classical silver and held in 2010, this book brings together a wealth of items in the neo-classical style.

A story of the making on location of this classic film at a seventeenth-century mansion in the Norfolk countryside, starring Julie Christie and Alan Bates.

The partnership of Philip Rundell and John Bridge began in London toward the end of the eighteenth century and went on to become the greatest firm of goldsmiths, jewelers and medalists of the age. Its stable of distinguished artists, headed by the sculptor John Flaxman, was the driving force in the adoption of a new imperial style

Charts the history and collections of La Providence, the French Hospital for the Huguenot community in England.

Published in memory of the architectural historian John Cornforth, these great house inventories document the taste and lifestyle of leading aristocratic patrons and the households that supported them.

East Anglian Silver describes a wealth of important silver articles made in the region which are now to be found in museums and private collections in Britain, America and Australia, as well as in churches of Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex.