223 pp 261 black and white photographs. First British translation, originally published in German as 'Altes Tafelsilber, Ein Brevier fur Sammler und Liebhaber'. " He classifies and describes the usage, form and ornament of beakers, jugs, coffee-pots, tea-pots, bowls, plates, knives, forks and candlesticks which stood daily on the tables of the Euopean countries from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century."