This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...hand of an uneducated workman; these are generally love-mottoes of little originality, and a typical selection will be found in the letterpress opposite the plates in the present volume. It was Franks (Archeological journal, vol. xix., p. 346) who first quoted the following announcement from the Public ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...hand of an uneducated workman; these are generally love-mottoes of little originality, and a typical selection will be found in the letterpress opposite the plates in the present volume. It was Franks (Archeological journal, vol. xix., p. 346) who first quoted the following announcement from the Public Advertiser of November 23, 1754: --" By Order of the Proprietors of the Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory. " To be Sold by Auction "By MR. F0121), " At his great Room in St. ames' Haymarket on Monday the 16th December and the following Days. " All the entire Stock of PORCELAIN TOYS, brought from their Ware house in Pall-Mall; consisting of Snuff-Boxes, Smelling Bottles, Etwees and Trinkets for Watches (mounted in gold and unmounted) in various beautiful Shapes, of an elegant Design, and curiously painted in Enamel. " Nothing of the above kind was in their former Sale, nor will any Thing of the same Sort as in this be sold from the Manufactory till after next year. " A large Parcel of Porcelain Hafts for Table and Dessert Knives and Forks." It is generally considered that this sale represents the first appearance on the market of these Chelsea toys, whose manufacture continued throughout the history of the factory. The original inspiration for most of them should probably be sought at Meissen, although patch-boxes in particular were extensively made at the French soft paste factories. The seals, or " trinkets for watches," of Plate 47 are all of early type, and we have already seen that one of them has furnished the means of identifying as pieces of early Chelsea the figures on Plate 11. The patchboxes, snuff-boxes, bonbonnieres or etuis (etwees) of Plates 46 and 48, are...
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Add this copy of Chelsea Porcelain to cart. $40.25, good condition, Sold by John C. Newland rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Cheltenham, Glos., UNITED KINGDOM, published 1922 by Benn Brothers.
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Used-Good. VG hardback in Fair dustd jacket. Endpapers browned & foxed; binding tight; dust jacket worn & browned, with tears & some loss. This is a heavy book (about 2.6kg); additional postage may be required.
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Add this copy of Chelsea Porcelain to cart. $91.44, good condition, Sold by Cornell Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Tewkesbury, UNITED KINGDOM, published by London: Benn Brothers, 1922.
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First edition (hardback). 4to (29cm by 24cm), xv, 135pp. Frontispiece and 69 plates, with a total of 171 illustrations (including 7 in colour). Original full brown pig-skin, gilt titling to the spine, gilt design to the front board, top edge gilt. Head of spine a little chipped, some light white staining of the boards, backstrip rather rubbed, endpapers browned else contents very good. Overall, this copy is in good condition. Limited to 75 copies (this copy number 32) printed on hand-made paper and signed by the author.
Add this copy of Chelsea Porcelain of the Victoria and Albert Museum to cart. $31.92, very good condition, Sold by The Guru Bookshop rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hereford, WALES, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1922 by Benn Brothers.
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Very good. 1922 First edition without jacket on brown cloth WITH ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTYONE ILLUSTRATIONS OF WHICH SEVEN ARE IN COLOUR will send out 1 st class post-rare and collectable.
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