This dictionary brings together as many facts as possible about blue and white printed pottery at the height of its popularity and production. The authors have produced a comprehensive guide, covering every possible aspect of the subject, with Appendices which include makers' initial marks and a list of source books used by makers. The discovery that prints could be transferred to porcelain and pottery helped transform the ceramics industry. Inevitably, the market demand at the end of the nineteenth century for brightly ...
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This dictionary brings together as many facts as possible about blue and white printed pottery at the height of its popularity and production. The authors have produced a comprehensive guide, covering every possible aspect of the subject, with Appendices which include makers' initial marks and a list of source books used by makers. The discovery that prints could be transferred to porcelain and pottery helped transform the ceramics industry. Inevitably, the market demand at the end of the nineteenth century for brightly coloured wares put an end to this extraordinary potting endeavour but the interest of collectors has never declined. This book was awarded the Library Association's 1982 McColvin Medal for an outstanding reference book. It is the first of a two volume set, having been supplemented in 1989 by a separate and entirely new companion volume containing additional entries and further information. This is a first-class reference book - Antique Collectors
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Condition: Used: Comment: Disc/discs are used and in good condition with some wear from use. This may include minor surface scratches on disc/discs, wear to case which could include cracks, scratches, or stickers. Hub may be broken, case locks may be broken. May or may not have the digital code or manual. All orders ship via UPS Mail Innovations. Thank you for shopping with Goodwill Industries of the Inland Northwest-changing lives through the cycle for good.
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Very Good. 1982. hardcover. Cloth, dj. Minor sunning to jacket. Foxing to fore-edge, occasionally extending to margins. Else fine. A sound copy with otherwise clean internals. Very Good. (Subject: Decorative Arts).
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Hardcover 4to with dust jacket. Book and dust jacket in near fine condition. 420 pages including acknowledgments, "A Century of Blue and White Printed Pottery 1780-1880", "Abbreviations and Conventions", "Dictionary", "Index of Potter's Initial Marks", 'Source Books used by Makers", "Maps: the Ganges and Jumna Valleys, India, the Two Scilies", and bibliography. Black and white and color photographs on nearly every page.
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Volume # 1, 2001 Printing, 1982 Copyright Date, 420 pages, 8.5 x 11 in size, Hardcover with dustjacket in protected mylar cover (removable). Book and Dustjacket are in Unused Condition. Book is completely intact with inside pages in Excellent Condition with no tears and with no notations (no pencil marks, no underlining, no highlighting, etc. )
