British Teapots and Tea Drinking 1700-1850. Illustrated from the Twining Teapot Gallery, Norwich Castle Museum
by Emmerson, Robin
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0117015091
- ISBN 13
- 9780117015098
- Seller
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Carmarthen, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: HMSO, Norfolk Museum Service and Twinings. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1992. 2nd Impression. Paperback. 0117015091 . Large format Heavy Thick 4to pictorial covered paperback. (xii) + 330 pages. (10-page bibliography). Illustrations in b/w. & with 24 colour plates. VG plus to Near Fine copy, with slight fading to spine and part of front cover, (as usual with this pale coloured background book unless kept in the dark! ) but all titling clear. With a small area to the page fore-edges that seems to have been guillotined slightly roughly! Looks to be Unread. From the rear cover: - "Tea-drinking became a British passion about 1700. This book charts the rise of the great national habit, and shows how and why an exotic luxury came to become part of the staple diet. It evokes the splendour and etiquette of the Georgian tea ceremony and its lasting effects both on patterns of social behaviour and on fine tableware........ The 564 teapots described and illustrated here range in date from 1720 to 1850. They are drawn from the Twining Teapot Gallery at Norwich Castle Museum, which houses the greatest specialist collection of British ceramic teapots in the world.....covering the whole range of pottery & porcelain from the stated period. Includes drawings of moulded details for identification." No Inscriptions or Marks. A Very Clean, Tight and Bright copy. ; Thick 4to 11" - 13" tall .
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- Bookseller
- Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 108475
- Title
- British Teapots and Tea Drinking 1700-1850. Illustrated from the Twining Teapot Gallery, Norwich Castle Museum
- Author
- Emmerson, Robin
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- 2nd Impression
- ISBN 10
- 0117015091
- ISBN 13
- 9780117015098
- Publisher
- HMSO, Norfolk Museum Service and Twinings
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- 0117015091, Tea Drinking, Teapots, Porcelain Teapots, Pottery Teapots, Ceramic Teapots, TABLEWARE, Georgian Tea Ceremony, Twinings, Norfolk Museums
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About the Seller
Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
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About Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
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