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Circa: 19974
Publisher: Spring books
Published by the Hamlyn Publishing company in 1966, this is the 5th impression dated 1972. Foreword by Sacheverell Sitwell. pp xxx, 167. 128 plates in black & white & full colour. Very Good in Very good dustwrapper. Goldsmith and Jeweller to the Russian Imperial Court - His Life and Work. Nobody was better equipped to reveal the background and rise to fame of Faberge than the late H.C. Bainbridge, friend of his early years in Petersburg, and later manager of his London branch in Dover Street. His story is authoritative and delightfully personal, his reminiscences vividly conjuring up the atmosphere of the carefree Edwardian age. This beautiful book has illustrations displaying the astonishing range of Faberge articles - the Easter eggs presented twice a year to the Tsar's family, gold cigarette boxes, clocks, miniature pieces of furniture, enamelled parasol holders, sprays of fruit and flowers in pearl and diamonds, figures of birds and animals in jasper and rhodonite and beautiful fashioned models of Russian peasants and cossacks. Buyer to pay shipping and handling fee of $5.00 in Continental USA - |
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