THE OLD CHINA BOOK, Including Staffordshire, Wedgwood, Lustre and Other English Pottery and Porcelain
by Moore, N. Hudson
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Cadyville, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Tudor Publishing Company, (1936).. (1936).. Good. - 8vo, maroon cloth (bumped & lightly rubbed; small, light stain to spine) titled in gilt, in dw (rubbed & chipped; tear to spine with 2 pieces out; rear panel soiled with piece out of top edge). xi, [iii] & 300 pp. (owner's bookplate on front pastedown with light offsetting to endpaper). B&W frontispiece, blue & white title vignette & B&W illustrations. Very good in fair dw. <p>This book "describes these choice porcelains accurately, gives the marks in carefully worded descriptions, shows by means of many illustrations the variations, and aims to assist the would- be collector in choosing his specimens....Details of interest aside from the manufacture of the pottery render the book entertaining to those not necessarily collectors."--From the dw.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22411
- Title
- THE OLD CHINA BOOK, Including Staffordshire, Wedgwood, Lustre and Other English Pottery and Porcelain
- Author
- Moore, N. Hudson
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- NY: Tudor Publishing Company, (1936).
- Date Published
- (1936).
- Keywords
- ANTIQUES; COLLECTIBLES; ENGLISH; CHINA; POTTERY; PORCELAIN; STAFFORDSHIRE; LIVERPOOL; WEDGWOOD; LUSTRE; N. HUDSON MOORE; ILLUSTRATIONS.
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Terms of Sale
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Payment with order from individuals. Items are offered subject to prior sale. All purchases are subject to your approval, returnable within 10 days. New York State residents please add sales tax to your purchases. All items are guaranteed authentic and as described.
About the Seller
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Biblio member since 2003
Cadyville, New York
About Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (incorporated 1989) is a general antiquarian book store which buys and sells collections and individual items of significance. Booksellers Ric Zank and Daniel Meunier each bring to the business over 18 years of experience in seeking out and offering for sale unusual, uncommon and rare books, autographs, and ephemera in all fields. Our office is open 7 days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and frequently later. An answering machine will take your message after hours and when we are out of the office.
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- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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