Old English Lustre Ware by Bedford, John

HARDBACK "COLLECTORS? PIECES SERIES No 5," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression:1st.* Date of Publication: 1965* Publisher: Cassell.* Binding and cover condition: Maroon cloth, Gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour photo to wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of 10/6d. Clean and bright in clear film library wrapper. FINE* Contents condition: Ex library copy with neat stamps to title. FEP removed and replaced. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very lightly used if at all. VG++* Illustrations: 2pp.colour & b/w photos & line drawings throughout within text.* Pages: 66 pp. text. iv pp. Appendices & blank pages at rear.* Description: Number five in a series of handbooks by John Bedford, providing a new (1960?s) and lighter approach to collecting. This pocket book gives a concise and readable history of the techniques and origins of lustre ware from Staffordshire to Swansea. There is also a section regarding the Hispano-Moresque wares of the Early Renaissance. Collectors of pottery will hardly find a wider choice of information on this great ceramic family. It is still a definitive guide for the browser and collector.* A NEAR FINE copy reduced by library stamps to VG++*