English and Scottish Earthen Ware 1660 - 1860.

London: Abbey Fine Arts. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo No publication date. Circa 1960. Dust jacket completein clear protective sleeve. Original cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership inscription. Slight darkening to pages. 46 b/w Plates, 5 Illustrations. 238 pages clean and tight. SOONER OR LATER ALMOST EVERYONE WHO has any interest in antiques feels an urge to collect old earthenware, and there is abundant opportunity for the collector, provided he really knows what. he is looking for. This book will guide him through the important early stages of his quest. It results from very many years of appreciative study, enriched by frequent contacts with collectors throughout the country, and founded on a technician's detailed comprehension of the processes involved. The collector's choice may be among frog mugs or picture plates, chimney-piece figures or lustre jugs. English developments in earthenwares and stonewares revolutionised eighteenth-century tableware, and the collector can trace each step in that advance to smooth-rimmed cups and gleaming plates. Sunderland has given its name to a distinctive range of highly-collectable work; Leeds ware is world-renowned and wildly misattributed; Scotland contributed more richly than sometimes is realised to our heritage of decorative and useful wares. With so much to choose from, the collector soon looks for advice. This book offers the necessary basic facts, clearly and without technicalities - the outward appearance of bodies, glazes and ornament, and the manufacturing developments that brought these about - and straightforward guidance for distinguishing between valuable originals and comparatively recent reproductions and present-day fakes. Only a collector conversant with these essentials has much hope of acquiring a bargain, let alone a collection that will give him lasting pleasure. .