French, Hollis. Jacob Hurd and His Sons Nathaniel and Benjamin, Silversmiths 1702 - 1781. The Riverside Press/The Walpole Society, Cambridge, MA, 1939.

Price: US$40.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Exlibrary, usual marks; Limited edition, #112/250; green cloth covers; corners lightly bumped and rubbed; spine torn and frayed at top and bottom; covers darkened along top and fore-edge; pages lightly toned at edges; light soil to front and rear endpapers; 28 b&w plates; embossed library stamp on each plate; post-publication Addenda in envelope inside back cover.

Seller: Indy Library Store, Indianapolis, IN, U.S.A.

French, Hollis. Jacob Hurd and His Sons Nathaniel and Benjamin, Silversmiths. The Riverside Press for the Walpole Society, 1939.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1939. Hardcover. Limited edition printed for members of the Walpole Society of which this is 250 of 250. Biography of the silversmith with 28 illustrations and a colored portrait frontispiece. Includes a chapter on Hurd's bookplates. Bound in green buckram with a navy blue slipcase. Very Good with a hint of rubbing to the corners and staining to the front gutter.

Seller: Vandello Books, Member IOBA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.

Hollis French; Walpole Society (U.S.). Jacob Hurd and his sons Nathaniel and Benjamin, silversmiths, 1702-1781,. Printed by the Riverside Press for the Walpole Society, [Cambridge, Mass.], 1939.

Price: US$111.60 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: xvi pages, 2 leaves, 3-147, [2] pages color mounted frontispiece (portrait) XXVIII plates (including portrait) illustrations (facsimiles, coat of arms) 26 cm. Laid in is an eight page "Addenda" dated 1942 and tied in string. At head of title: The Walpole society. "Two hundred and fifty numbered copies of this book . were printed . in October, 1939. This copy is number 90". Top edge gilt. A nearly perfect and handsome copy.

Seller: Cambridge Books, Cambridge, MN, U.S.A.

French, Hollis. Jacob Hurd and His Sons Nathaniel & Benjamin Silversmiths 1702-1781. Foreword by Kathryn Buhler.. n.pl. [Cambridge, Massachusetts], Printed by the Riverside Press for the Walpole Society, 1939., 1939.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First (only) edition. 4to. Very good copy. Limited edition of 250 numbered copies "of which the first thirty have been specially bound, signed, and reserved for the members of the Walpole Society"; this is copy no. 11, but it appears to be in the usual binding and is not signed. Perhaps in fact no such copies were issued. In-text illustrations and numerous photographic plates. Portrait of Nathaniel Hurd reproduced in color tipped in as frontispiece. In addition to dealing with the Hurds' work as silversmiths, there is an extensive section devoted to prints, ephemera, and bookplates engraved by Nathaniel Hurd, who was also a goldsmith.

Seller: Alexanderplatz Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.

FRENCH, Hollis.. Jacob Hurd and His Sons, Nathaniel & Benjamin, Silversmiths 1702-1781,. The Riverside Press for the Walpole Society, [Cambridge], 1939.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: With a Foreword by Kathryn C. Buhler. xvii, 149 pp. Color frontispiece; illustrations from photographs. Large 8bo, original green cloth. No. 102 of 250 copies. Slight foxing to the gutters of the endsheets; otherwise fine.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.