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4 OLD ENGLISH LUSTRE POTTERY BOOKS,Gold Lustre,COLOR,B/W PHOTOS,& POTTERY PRIMER

$ 6.83

Availability: 94 in stock
  • Language: English
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Condition: Hodgdon BOOK corners lightly rubbed, else VG, clean, in sound binding. Photo-copy of scholarly lustre pottery article from the Antiquarian magazine loosely included. Pottery Primer covers worn and spotted, stained on rear cover [see photos]; contents clean and complete, binding intact. John book is VG, few light spots to blanks, corners lightly rubbed & bumped, contents clean, binding sound gold lustre booklet is VG in cord-tied green wraps with lightly rubbed edges; American Collector booklet has very lightly spotted covers, else VG, clean in intact pb binding.

    Description

    Jeannette R Hodgdon
    Collecting Old English Lustre
    Hardcover, Publisher: The Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1937;
    Original. Special Attributes: 1St Edition. Year Printed: 1937. Place Of Publication: Portland, Me. Monochrome
    Frontispiece
    And 13 Monochrome Plates.. 44pp. 7 1/4" x 10", Monochrome
    frontispiece
    and 13 monochrome plates FROM PHOTOS.
    Gilt
    lettered (faded) blue
    buckram
    backstrip over brown
    boards
    .
    Printed title/author label laid on front board. NY antique dealer's Bookplate on front pastedown.
    AND
    :
    Collecting Gold Lustres
    by John M. Clarke, Director, NY State Museum, Albany, 1908; 8vo, 15 pages, full-page color plates;
    AND:
    John, W. D. and Baker, Warren
    Old English Lustre Pottery
    First edition
    Hardcover, folio, 10" x 11 1/2", Publisher: R. H. Johns, 1951;
    Newport, Monmouthshire: R. H. Johns, 1951. First edition, xx, 132pp. Publisher's original blue
    cloth
    boards
    with
    gilt
    to upper
    board
    and spine. Top edge tinted darker blue and lightly rubbed. No jacket. Along with a discussion of the different types of lustre pottery in history, this compendious book provides a reference to many of the potteries that produced something described as lustre ware. These potteries included some of the giants of the industry, such as Spode and Wedgwood, and many others.
    Chapters include early Islamic and euro antecedents, techniques, dating pieces, Spode, Wedgwood, Wood, other Staffordshire, Leeds, Swansea, American Historical and other lustreware; AND:
    The American Antique Collector
    Vol. III, No. 9, 1956, 8vo, 72 pages, 41 devoted to Lustre ware;
    A Pottery Primer
    by W P Jervis, Philad., Issued Solely by Wright, Tyndale & van Roden, Importers and Retailers Foreign and Domestic China and Glass; 6" x 9", 188 pages & illustrated ads; detailed illustrated treatment of most foreign and American period wares and reproductions.