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Very good. No dust jacket. A near fine copy in gilt embossed cloth covered boards. No DJ present. Probable 1st printing with no additional printings listed. Covers have some general wear and light soiling/staining to the top front board edge and the spine. Extensively illustrated in color and black and white. A larger book requiring additional postage for international and priority orders. 4to; ~ 352 pages.
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Good. No Dust Jacket. Book Folio, hardcover, in beige cloth boards with embossed gilt design; illustrated history of ceramics; First Ed. Light discoloration to board edges else good. Interior clean and unmarked. 64 color plates and many black and white plates; covers ancient world, all types of ceramics from Europe (porcelain, tin-glaze, lead-glaze, salt-glaze), Islam, Far East, Ancient World, Primitive World, Staffordshire and indistrialism, modern world. Decorated endpapers; 352 pages. Gorgeous book!
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VG (DJ is slightly aged and is corner clipped; otherwise clean. ) Tan stamped cloth with gilt letters on spine and gilt decoration on front cover; white & color-illustrated dust jacket; illus. flyleaves; 352 pp., 1019 illustrations in bw and color. "Comprehensive in every way, this exciting visual history of ceramics shows all the diversity of this subject in well over a thousand illustrations--over sixty in colour. The dual role of ceramics--its evolution as a utilitarian craft, as well as its elaboration into a decorative art--is fascinatingly displayed in all its contexts, from the peasant's hearth to the courts of kings. This history reaches far back into remotest antiquity to the earliest archaeological discoveries of crude baked clay vessels. All the mainstreams of ceramic tradition, reflecting the character and taste of diferent civilisations, are then traced through prehistory, the medieval and Renaissance periods, the age of elegance, followed by the industrial revolution, right up to the present day." (dj).