Language: English
Published by ERNEST BENN LIMITED, LONDON, 1925
Seller: Deus ex Libris - Libreria Antiquaria, Chianciano Terme, SI, Italy
First Edition
First UK Edition. Rare complete three-volume set. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt lettering to the spines. Colour plates accompanied by tissue guard sheets with descriptive letter-press. maps; and many black and white photographs and illustrations. Edited and with appendices by Bernard Rackham. Each volume contains bibliography and indexes, persons and private collections, countries, places, factories and public collections, subjects, technique and terminology. Volume I. Europe and the Near East : Earthenware and Stoneware; Vol II. The Far East; and Volume III European Porcelain. Described as a Handbook for Collectors. Bernard Rackham was Keeper of the Department of Ceramics at the Victoria and Albert Museum from 1914 to 1938. No dustjacket.