HANDBOOKS OF PRACTICAL ART. ART WORK IN GOLD AND SILVER BY HENRY B. WHEATLEY, F.S.A. ASSISTANT SBCRETARY, SOCIETY OF ARTS, AND PHILIP H. DELAMOTTE, 8 PROFESSOR OF DRAWING AND PAINTING, AND LECTUREH OX PRACTICAL PINE ART, KINGS COLLEGE, LOXDON. Befu so CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS, 743-745, BROADWAY. LONDON SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, RIVINGTON. EDITORS NOTE. THE chief aim of this series of HANBOOKS OF PRACTICAL ART is to bring to the notice of students and anatcuss of art, as well as all Iovers of the highest excellence in workmanship, numerous examples, both ancient and modern, of the application of beautiful design to articles of every-day use and to the various objects which are frequently employed for purposes of decoration. The Handbook will contain an historical record of the progress of the art of which it treats, from the earliest times tu the present, showing the distinctive characteristics of the respective periods and will be illustrated with about forty to sixty engravings,...