Rackham Bernhard (6 results)

inb. Condition: Very Good.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. New and Revised Edition, largeley Re-illustrated, of the "Burlington Magazine Monograph, I"First edition. With 23 plates in colour and 62 from Photographs. xvi, 86 pp. Red cloth. Fine in slightly chipped dj With 23 plates in colour and 62 from Photographs. xvi, 86 pp New and Revised Edition, largeley Re-illustrated, of the "Burlington Magazine Monograph, I"First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. English Pottery: Its Development from Early Times to the end of the Eighteenth Century by Bernhard Rackham and Herbert Read, 1st edition, 1924 with an appendix on the Wrotham Potters by Dr J W L Glaisher. Published by Ernest Benn Ltd, London 1924. Brown cloth over boards with gilt lettering to spine. Very good overall. Some very minor shelfwear and bumping to cover. Small booksellers sticker to front paste down and small endpaper split at joint. Binding firm throughout. Text pages very good with occasional spotting and minor age discoloration. A beautiful book in this series by Benn. We also currently have a number of Chinese art titles in the same series for sale. A substantial volume. xxiv + 143pp + 115 plates, some in colour, with printed tissue guards and colour frontispiece. Dimensions: 290mm high x 230mm wide x 55mm deep. More photos on request. Extra postage may be payable.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. First edition. Quarto. xv, 95pp., 28 plates. Original full calf with blind-stamped ruling, gilt decor and publishers device on cover, gilt lettering and publisher's device on spine; raised bands. Gilt top edge. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece tipped to heavy, dark gray paper plate. "The twenty-eight water-colour drawings reproduced in this volume have been made from specimens of porcelain in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, many of which have never been published before, while others have not hitherto been reproduced in colours. The selection has been made not merely of those pieces in their several classes which have a high sale-room value; due consideration has been given to those which by their aesthetic qualities appealed to the sympathies of the artists, while at the same time an effort has been made to include objects having some particular historical or personal interest, or important as documents in the history of ceramics. Contains list of plates and index. Laid in a postmarked envelope with order confirmation from The Ceramic Book Company. Some wear of binding, 3/4" closed tear at head of front joint, back joint with three inch crack, and generally some scuffing and light chipping along edges of binding.

Hardcover. Condition: g- to vg. First limited edition. 86/100, signed by author and translator on colophon. Large Quarto. xv, 155, lxix plates with printed tissue guards. Original pigskin with gilt-stamped vignette on cover, gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Color frontispiece with tissue guard. "This work is to some extent based on the chapters relating to Dutch pottery in the handbook by the authoress on the earthenware in the Nederlandsch Museum voor Geschiedenis en Kunst (Rijksmuseum) at Amsterdam, published under the title "Oud Aardewerk," of which the first edition appeared in 1917 and a second in 1920." (Foreword). Includes chapters on the process of manufacture, red earthenware and tiles, Dutch Maiolica of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Delft earthenware, the "Rose" factory, the Muffle-Kiln, the Red Teapots of Delft, and other topics. with one hundred and twelve illustrations of which nine are in color. Some wear along edges of binding two inch closed tear at tail of spine and somewhat scuffed along edges and joints. Bottom edge uncut. Binding in overall good-, interior in goo+ to very good condition.

33,5 x 27 cm. 431 Seiten mit 36 Farbtafeln und 265 Tafeln mit Hunderten von Abbildungen. Orig.-Leinenbände mit Orig.-Schutzumschlägen. - Die Sammlung umfaßt und beschreibt 3227 Porzellane, Majoliken und Steingut aller großen europäischen Manufakturen. Eine der bedeutendsten Sammlungen seiner Art, heute als Stiftung im Fitzwilliam Museum. - Schönes Exemplar.