A History and Description of English Earthenware and Stoneware (to the Beginning of the 19th Century) by Burton, William

Cassell & Company Limited, 1904. Hardcover. Good. 1904. 192 pages. No dust jacket. Limited Edition of 1450 copies, but this copy is not numbered. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Colour frontispiece with B&W photographs throughout. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Some gutter cracking. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards. Notable tanning to spine.

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London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1904. Copy 677 of 1450. Hardbound. G+ (Binding spine has faded; book has moderate foxing on book block edges and on outermost pages; book is tight and crisp.). Red linen cloth with gilt letters on spine & front cover. Top edge gilt. xv, 192 pp., 24 color and many bw plates. A history of English earthenware and stoneware, compiled judiciously and diligently, according to the author's preface. "Unfortunately, most of the early writers on this subject wrote with much greater zeal than discretion, and it has been a serious task to disentangle from the narratives of Simeon Shaw, Ll. Jewitt, W. Chaffers, and Miss Meteyard, the true facts connected with the origin and development of the English earthenwares and stonewares of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Where there has been so much repetition of ill-understood tradition, and such an evident bias in favour of particular men or particular factories, it is not always possible to arrive at such a view as can… Read More

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Cassell Book. Very Good. Hardcover. In red cloth. No date. Edition limited to 1,450 numbered copies. Ink underlining to about 10 pages of text. .

Paperback / softback. New.

London: Cassell & Company Ltd, London, 1904. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Cassell & Company Ltd, London, 1904. 1st Edition . Good/No Jacket. xv + 192pp. 24 colour plates, 89 monochrome figures. Library rebound in red cloth with gilt lettering. Number to spine, bookplate on front pastedown and library stamp to endpaper. handwritten no. inside otherwise no obvious library markings. Nice and clean inside. ****** Heavy and may require extra overseas postage*****

Cassell. good. . 1904, limited edition, 297/1450clean boards, light foxing to end papers, with plates, contents clean binding tight, Professional booksellers since 1981 . 1904. Hardcover.