“As befits the subject, this volume is beautifully printed and richly illustrated. It is intended not so much for the craftsman and worker in gold or silver as for the collector and art lover. Beginning with the gold and silver ore in the ground, the author follows the history of the manufacture of ornaments and articles of use in the precious metals from the very earliest dates, far back of the Greek and Roman period, down to our own times, with a specially full description of such little-known periods as that of the Irish metal-workers and of the early English renaissance.”—Outlook.
“There is really not one dull page in a publication that will no doubt appeal alike to the antiquarian, the student of ecclesiastical history, the artist and the craftsman.”
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“On the historical side it is a little elementary; on the practical and artistic side it has the interesting personal touch that is only to be found in the notes of a man who knows from experience what the artist aims at, what means he employs, and what difficulties he has to face and overcome.”
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| Outlook. 87: 359. O. 19, ’07. 100w. | ||
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Dawson, William Harbutt. German workman: a study in national efficiency. *$1.50. Scribner.
6–23711.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A very readable account of that splendid system of ‘social policy’ by means of which the health and efficiency of the workman have been promoted as by no other people in the history of the race.” Charles Richmond Henderson.