Old Wedgwood. The Decorative or Artistic Ceramic Work, in Colour and Relief Invented and Produced by Josiah Wedgwood... 1760-1794.
by Rathbone, Frederick
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Merion, Pennsylvania: Buten Museum of Wedgwood, 1968 Reprint in its entirety of Rathbone's rare original work, "Old Wedgwood," originally published in eight parts of 36 pages each in 1898. This reprint provides a new index. Edited by Harry M. Buten. Quarto. [2], 258pp. Illustrated throughout with 67 full-page illustrations, smaller text illustrations. Index. Green cloth, gilt. A very fine copy. The work consists of biographical and descriptive chapters, a list of marks used at Etruria and explanatory text to each object illustrated. Specific chapters cover Wedgwood's life; the invention and progress of Wedgwood's art work; designers and modelers employed by Wedgwood; clay and materials used; a classification of Wedgwood's ornamental work; forgeries and imitations; biographers and critics of Wedgwood; hints to collectors, etc..
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- Bookseller
- Argonaut Book Shop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5006
- Title
- Old Wedgwood. The Decorative or Artistic Ceramic Work, in Colour and Relief Invented and Produced by Josiah Wedgwood... 1760-1794.
- Author
- Rathbone, Frederick
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Buten Museum of Wedgwood
- Place of Publication
- Merion, Pennsylvania
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- Josiah Wedgwood, Ceramics, China, Porcelain
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