Baker, Denys Val.

Pottery Today.

First Edition. London New York Toronto, Oxford University Press, 1961. 14.5cm x 22cm. xii, 144 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

Beard, Geoffrey.

The National Trust Book of English Furniture.

Middlesex, Penguin Books, 1986. 14.5cm x 21cm. 295 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Blacker, J.F.

The ABC of Collecting Old English China. Giving a Short History of the English Factories, and showing how to apply Tests for Unmarked China before 1800.

Second edition. London, The London Opinion Curio Club, 1908. 23 x 15 cm. 142 pages with 75 illustrations. Original Hardcover. Good condition with minor external wear and some foxing.

Brockhaus, Albert.

Netsuke. Versuch einer Geschichte der Japanischen Schnitzkunst. Mit 272 Schwarzen und 53 Bunten Abbildungen.

First Edition. Leipzig, F.A. Brockhaus, 1905. 28 x 20 cm. xiv, 482 pages. Illustrated throughout. Complete with 53 coloured Plates and numerous B&W Illustrations. Original full grey soft leather binding. Gilt titles and decorations. Top edge gilt. Silver decorated end papers. Very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped with some wear and minor material losses to extremities (see images). Somewhat discoloured. Internally a bright and clean copy. A few of the tissue guards torn, but all tissue guards are present. See notes below. Overall a very good clean and complete copy.

Brown, Richard.

The Principles of Practical Perspective; or, Scenographic Projection: Containing Universal Rules for Deliniating Designs on Various Surfaces, and taking Views from Nature, by the Most Simple and Expeditious Methods. To which is added, Rules for Shadowing, and the Elements of Painting. The whole treated in a Manner calculated to render the Science of Perspective and Art of Drawing Easy of Attainment to every Capacity.

First Edition. Illustrated with Fifty-One Plates. London, Printed for Samuel Leigh, in the Strand, 1815. 30 x 23.5 cm. xviii, 96 text pages and 51 Plates, as listed. Including one colour Plate (XXXIX) which is at times used as a Frontispiece, but is bound here in the correct position between pages 56 and 57. Dark green half calf over marbled boards. Dark red spine label with gilt title. Marbled end papers. Very good condition. Binding severely rubbed and bumped. Corners worn with some material losses (see images), Edges and end papers age darkened. Internally dust dulled and mildly foxed. Small bookseller sticker on front pastedown.Name of previous owner in ink on verso of front free end paper.

By A Graduate of Oxford (Vol. 1 and 2) / Ruskin, John.

Modern Painters. Volume I. Containing Parts I and II. / Volume II. Containing Part III. Sections 1. and 2. Of the Imaginative and Theoretic Faculties. / Volume III. Containing Part IV. Of Many Things. / Volume IV. Containing Part V. Of Mountain Beauty. / Volume V. Completing the Work, and Containing Parts VI. Of Leaf Beauty. VII. Of Cloud Beauty. VIII. Of Ideas of Relation. 1. Of Invention Formal. IX. Of Ideas of Relation. 2. Of Invention Spiritual.

Vol. 1: Third Edition – Revised by the Author. Volumes 2-5 First Editions. Five Volumes – Complete Set. London, Smith, Elder and Co. 1846, 1846, 1856, 1856, 1860. 26 x 18 cm. Vol.1: lxiii, 422 pages plus 32 pages publishers list / Vol.2: xvi, 217 pages plus 3 pages publishers list / Vol.3: xix, 348 pages plus 16 pages publishers list and 18 Plates / Vol. 4: xii, 411 pages. With 35 Plates / Vol.5: xvi, 384 pages plus 32 pages publishers list and 34 Plates. Also small illustrations in text. Green cloth with elaborate blind decorations to boards. Gilt titles and decorations on spine. Small binder label in volume 1: ‘Westleys & Clark, London’. Very good condition. All bindings are rubbed, bumped and some are stained. Various degrees of fraying to spine ends. Spines age darkened / browned. Edges and end papers age darkened. Internally dust dulled and occasionally mildly foxed. All Plates are present, a few are lose. Bindings sound. A nice complete set of this important publication.

Captain Hale.

How To Tie Salmon Flies. A Treatise on the Methods of Tying the Various Kinds of Salmon Flies. With Illustrated Directions and containing the Dressing of Forty Flies. By Captain Hale. East Lancashire Regiment.

First Edition. London, Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1892. 22 x 14 cm. xi, 122 pages plus 4 pages of Ads. Illustrated. Original red cloth. Gilt titles. Very good condition. Binding seriously stained and discoloured (see images). Edges and end papers dust dulled. Front hinge ctacked and front free end paper almost disconnected. Internally bright and clean. A very good reading copy or candidate for rebinding.

Chaffers, William.

The Collector’s Hand-book of Marks and Monograms on Pottery & Porcelain of the Renaissance and Modern Periods. Selected from His Larger Work.

London, Reeves and Turner, 1906. 19.5cm x 13cm. XXX, 234 pages. With historic illustrations. Original Hardcover. Good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Gilted cover and spine.

Chaffers, William.

The Keramic Gallery. Containing several Hundred Illustrations of Rare Curious and Choice Examples of Pottery and Porcelain from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the XIXth Century. With Historical Notices and Descriptions.

Second Edition, revised and edited by William Chaffers. London New York, Gibbings and Company, 1907. 17cm x 26.5cm. XXII, 468, (4) pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition but with some stronger signs of external wear. Corners bumped. Binding still very firm and the text in clean and very good condition.

Cripps, Wilfred Joseph.

Old English Plate. Ecclesiastical, Decorative, and Domestic: Its Makers and Marks.

Ninth Edition. London, John Murray, 1906. 23 x 15 cm. xxiv, 524 pages. With 131 Illustrations and upwards of 2,600 Facsimiles of Plate Marks. Original green cloth with gilt decorations and title on spine. Dark end papers. Very good condition. Binding rubbed, bumped and damp stained. Edges and end papers age darkened. One corner cut of front free end paper. Gift inscription in ink: ‘T.K.E.Lees from M.W.M. & G.B. Portman With very best wishes April 11th 1907’. Some pages uncut. Occasional foxing throughout.