Praeger Publishers, New York.

In this authoritative survey, Graham Hood, Director of Collections at Colonial Williamsburg, traces the history of style in American silver, from the lovely, simple 17th century cups and beakers and the marvelously ornamental Baroque and Rococo pieces to the handsome, varies product of the 19th century. The successive trends in taste are carefully explored and documented with hundreds of examples and the masterpieces of each period are discussed in detail so that the reader quickly sharm=pens his sensitivity to the styles and his instinct for quality.