American Painted Tinware: A Guide to Its Identification (In 3 Volumes)

New York: Historical Society of Early American Decoration, Inc. Pictorial boards. Fine. Very handsome examples of the first 3 volumes (of 4 complete) of this sweeping guide to identifying American Painted Tinware. VOL. I IS SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR LOIS TUCKER at the title page. All 3 volumes are clean, tight and Near Fine in their dark boards, with bright gilt-titling and pictorial mounts to each front panel. All volumes internally immaculate as well, with no writing or markings of any kind. Uniform quartos, hundreds of plates throughout, including a number in rich color. Vol. I: Berlin, Connecticut; Upton; S. North, and Butler Tinshops; Vol. II: Tinshops of Stevens Plains, Maine; Vol. III: Filley Tinshops of Connecticut, New York and Pennsylvania.