Search Results: Ceramics from Royoung bookseller, Inc.

Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Very good in chipped dust wrapper. 69 pages in text. 4to, 27 x 21 cm. 102 black and white plates. Index. Limited edition, one of 600 copies.

Stamford: Castle Publishing Co. Ltd, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Plates loose as issued housed in black cloth portfolio with black cloth ties, lettered and illustrated in gilt. Near fine. [iv], xii, 148, [13] pages. 36 x 25. Twelve color plates and 149 in black and white, many with multiple images per plate printed on heavy stock. Errata.

New York: Doubleday, 1971. First American edition. Hardcover. Orig. crimson cloth. Fine in chipped dust wrapper. 119 pages. 30 x 21 cm. Profusion of excellent qualiry color photographs by Michael Plomer.

London: Century House, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, beveled edges. Teg. Near fine in worn dust wrapper. 136 pages. 30 x 24 cm. More than 100 black and white illustrations and three in color. Foreword by Henry Farnham Burke. Limited edition, copy 729 of 1000. Index. Contents bright and fresh, slight toning to fore-edges.

Paris: Charles Massin, 1956. New edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. Very good. 4to, 18 pages in text and 100 colorplates with descriptive text. Note by Yvonne Brunhammer. Originally published, 1928, this new edition updates and corrects the earlier one. Text in French.

London: Thames And Hudson, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. light gray textured cloth front cover gilt illustration. Near fine in worn dust wrapper. 186 pages. 31 x 25 cm. 34 color plates, 120 photogravure illustrations and six diagrams. Bibliography, List of Color Plates and Index. Ursus Books label.

Tokyo: Kodansha, 1972. Hardcover. Orig. decorated beige cloth. Fine in near fine dust wrappers in clear plastic overwrappers. 2 Vols. 236, 229 pages. Folio, 36.5 x 27 cm. Two monumental works with a host of black and white, color and tipped-in plates. Chronology of Japanese Art until 1568 (Vol.I) and Chronology of Japanese Art from the Sixteenth Century. Supplementary Notes and Glossary in each volume. Interior contents bright and fresh. Book label of Ursus Books.

Seattle & London: University of Washington Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. white patterned cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Unpaginated. 34 x 26 cm. Seventy five plates, most are full page and in color with extensive descriptions for each. Selected Bibliography and Index of Chinese names and terms.

London: Order Of The Trustees, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth. Very good. 310 pages in text. 4to, 28 x 22 cm. Forty-two plates and 132 illustrations in the text. Index. Classic work on English pottery, toning to first few and last leaves, text otherwise clean, wrinkling to cloth covers, rubbing to backstrip extremities.

Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth with beveled edges. Near fine in slightly nicked, albeit very good dust wrappers. 2 vols. 431 & 266 pages. 34 x 25 cm. 37 color plates, 266 collotype plates. The collection is strongest in the English lead-glazed wares, stonewares and delft wares of the pre-industrial age, but the Continental section amounting to 2268 specimens comprises fine examples from all parts of Europe.

London: H.M.S.O., 1924. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. green/gray wrappers. Very good. 193 pages in text. 24.5 x 18.5 cm. 49 black and white plates printed on glossy stock. Index of Names of Artists. Asian lacquer ware, which may be called "true lacquer", are objects coated with the treated, dyed and dried sap that can be applied to various surfaces. Half inch upper back corner lacking.

London: Victoria And Albert Museum Department of Woodwork, 1925. First editions. Hardcover. Orig. medium blue cloth, backstrips and covers lettered in gilt. Near fine. 3 Vols. 193 pages in text. PART 1: 24.5 x 18.5 cm. 48 black and white plates. Index of Names of Artists. [PART: II]. 162 pages. 37 plates with multiple images per plate. Index of Names of Artists, [PART: III]. 36 Pages. 44 plates. Every item in this complete three volume set contains detailed descriptive text for almost all images presented -- text and images printed on high gloss stock. Asian lacquer ware, which may be called "true lacquer", are objects coated with the treated, dyed and dried sap that can be applied to various surfaces.

New York: Walker, 1960. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth. Very good in chipped dust wrapper. 64 pages. Illustrated. Marks.

New York: Doubleday, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. yellow cloth decorated in red. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 296 pages. 32 x 23 cm. 305 color plates. Sources and Location of Works of Art. Bibliography. Index.

Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 2001. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. Texts in Hebrew and English. 30.5 x 19 cm. Chronology. Catalogue of Works. Multitude of color plates printed on high end glossy stock.

New York: Pitman, 1974. First American edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth. Near fine in very good dust wrapper. 256 pages. 24 x 18 cm. 361 black and white photographs, eight plates in color. Bibliography. Index. This is the first work in English dealing exhaustively with Chinese export porcelain.

New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth. Fine in very good dust wrapper, slight nick at front cover head. 204 pages. 16 x 16.5 cm. 120 plates, twenty-four of which are in color, as well as nine figure illustrations. The book covers the Chou and Han Dynasties of 1122 - 206 B.C. and the periods up to and including the Ch'ing Dynasty of 1644 - 1912 A.D. Ursus Books label.

New York: Harper & Row, 1974. First American edition. Orig. cream patterned cloth. Fine in nicked, very good dust wrapper. 317 pages. 33 x 28.5 cm. 111 tipped-in color plates, more than 350 black and white illustrations, plus drawings and maps. Printed in Switzerland. A definitive study of Chinese ceramics from the Neolithic period to the 20th century. Catalogue, Appendices, Bibliography and Index.

London: Theodore Brun, 1949. First edition. leather_bound. Full black morocco, front cover decorated in gilt. Fine. 291 pages. 30.5 x 25 cm. Limited edition, copy 80 of 100. The first volume published in 1947 by Alan Wingate was a great success, this the second effort. Glossary of Professional Affixes. Index To Designers. Plethora of plates, multiple images per plate. Interior contents pristine.

London: Ernest Benn, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Very good in slightly nicked dust wrapper. 183 pages. 27 x 21 cm. 180 photographs, twelve in color. Bibliography. Index. General survey.