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A new touch-stone for gold and silver wares : directing all buyers of large plate or small works ... how to know whether they buy or wear such as are of the lawful standard-allay or adulterated and unlawful, and how to recover recompence against the offenders : and also discovering the principal matters of the goldsmiths and cutlers .. trades / by W.B. ... ; to which is likewise added, The useful and easie tables of Mr. John Reynolds ... plainly shewing how to cast up and make all sorts of gold and silver true standard.
Van Pelt - Microtext Microfilm 2371 no. 2287.
Mixed Availability
- Format:
- Microformat
- Author/Creator:
- W. B. (William Badcock)
- Series:
- Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature ; no. 2287.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gold--Standards of fineness--Early works to 1800.
- Silver--Standards of fineness--Early works to 1800.
- Gold--Law and legislation--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.
- Silver--Law and legislation--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.
- Silver--Law and legislation.
- Silver.
- Gold--Law and legislation.
- Silver--Standards of fineness.
- Gold--Standards of fineness.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 18 unnumbered pages, 218 pages, 151 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations
- 35 mm
- monochrome
- service copy
- positive
- Edition:
- The second edition, corrected and much enlarged.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for J. Bellinger ... and T. Basset ..., 1679.
- Notes:
- The author's name appears after the edition statement.
- First edition published as: A touch-stone for gold and silver wares, or, A manual for goldsmiths and all other persons, whether buyers, sellers, or weavers of any manner of goldsmiths work.
- "Here followeth a brief and easie way by tables ..." / calculated by John Reynolds, of the Mynt in the Tower of London: [151] p. (last group).
- Microfilm. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, [1974]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature ; no. 2287).
- Cited in:
- Goldsmiths' Lib. cat., 2287.
- Wing B381.
- Contains:
- Reynolds, John (Of the London Mint)
- OCLC:
- 20886973
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