The Earle Collection of Early Staffordshire Pottery

Book Description

London: A. Brown and Sons, 1915 First edition. Introduction by Frank Falkner; supplementary chapter by T. Sheppard. Small folio. xlvi, 240pp. 270 half-tone photographic plates in sepia, 10 color plates (illustrating over 700 examples). Original brick cloth, gilt-lettered spine, gilt lettering and pictorial device on front cover. Light wear to spine ends, corners and lower edge of boards, stains from dried flowers to rear endpapers, two leaves with slight crunching to border near fore-edge. A very good copy. A detailed, fully illustrated, account of this important collection. Each section of this fine work is prefaced by a short introduction; the text, which includes brief descriptions of each piece, is arranged so as to be directly opposite the corresponding illustrations. Important and sought-after..

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