The Earle Collection of Early Staffordshire Pottery, Illustrating Over Seven Hundred Different Pieces
by Earle, Major Cyril et al
- Used
- Condition
- VG contents, printed on high-quality rag and glossy paper with tissue guards over color plates. Very bottoms of a few rag page e
- Seller
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
London: A. Brown and Sons, Limited, 1915. Hardbound. VG contents, printed on high-quality rag and glossy paper with tissue guards over color plates. Very bottoms of a few rag page edges are darkened; covers good+ and clean but with bumps to spine head/tail and to corners.. Brick cloth with gilt designs and titles on cover and spine; blind-stamp borders. xlvi + 240 pp., followed by a list of subscribers. Color frontis; 9 color plates and more than 270 sepia illus. TEG. Heavy and will require extra postage. A lavish and large publication. Wonderful, crisp illustrations and useful annotations about the Earle Collection. Printed on heavy rag paper, with plates printed on glossy stock. Includes an introduction by Frank Falkner and a Supplementary Chapter by T. Sheppard. With a separate section on Toby Jugs.
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- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 106342.1
- Title
- The Earle Collection of Early Staffordshire Pottery, Illustrating Over Seven Hundred Different Pieces
- Author
- Earle, Major Cyril et al
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - VG contents, printed on high-quality rag and glossy paper with tissue guards over color plates. Very bottoms of a few rag page e
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- A. Brown and Sons, Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1915
- Keywords
- European Decorative Arts; Earle Collection; Staffordshire Pottery; Toby Jugs; Ceramics ; English Ceramics ; ;
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About the Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
Biblio member since 2004
Columbia, Pennsylvania
About Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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- Bumps
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- VG
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
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- Crisp
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