Staffordshire Portrait Figures [of the Victorian Age]

Newton, Massachusetts: Charles T. Branford Company, 1960. U.S. edition. Hardcover. VG (Book has average wear and aging; is wearing the dust jacket from the Faber and Faber edition of this book, for some odd reason, and it is corner clipped.). Gray cloth with red title block and gilt letters on spine, olive and color illus. dust jacket, 93 pp. of text plus 51 BW plate pages. A survey of Victorian Staffordshire portrait figures, based on the author's own collection, which he limited to "contemporary or historical persons of whose physical appearance there was some record." (p. 13) Categories here are: The Royal Family; Statesmen; Naval and Military (divided by time period or war); Religious; Authors; Stage; Sport; Crime; and Miscellaneous. The annotated catalogue lists 194 individuals, representing 266 figurines. The illustrations appear on BW plates bound at the back of the book. (Inventory #: 152690)