The Earle Collection of Early Staffordshire Pottery Illustrating over Seven Hundred Different Pieces by Major Cyril Earle; Frank Falkner; T Sheppard - 1915

London: A. Brown and Sons, Limited, 1915. Hardbound. VG contents, printed on high-quality rag and glossy paper with tissue guards over color plates. Very bottoms of a few rag page edges are darkened; covers good+ and clean but with bumps to spine head/tail and to corners.. Brick cloth with gilt designs and titles on cover and spine; blind-stamp borders. xlvi + 240 pp., followed by a list of subscribers. Color frontis; 9 color plates and more than 270 sepia illus. TEG. Heavy and will require extra postage. A lavish and large publication. Wonderful, crisp illustrations and useful annotations about the Earle Collection. Printed on heavy rag paper, with plates printed on glossy stock. Includes an introduction by Frank Falkner and a Supplementary Chapter by T. Sheppard. With a separate section on Toby Jugs.

London: A. Brown and Sons, Limited, 1915. Cloth. Very Good +. A handsome, tight copy of the 1915 1st edition. Solid and VG+ in its light-brown cloth, with bright gilt-design and titling along the front panel and spine. Light bumping to the upper tips, just a touch of very mild darkening along the front hinge. Tall quarto, beautiful color frontispiece. Top-edge gilt, deckled fore and bottom-edges.

Hull: A. Brown & Sons, 1915. First Edition. Brown Gilt Cloth. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Containing upwards of two hundred and seventy half tone Reproductions in sepia and ten full plates in colour.Small tears to spine , corners rubbed and bumped internally very good, fraying to spine Size: Quarto. Category: Antiques & Collectibles; 1900-1920; .

London; nd. (ca.1915): A. Brown and Sons, Limited. A Very Good Copy. Small Folio. 240p.. Ten full color plates with many hundreds of images of other items in sepia. The section on the history of the potter's art shows the great advances from the late 17th to the 19th centuries. Bound in original rust cloth with gilt image of "Toby figure". Issued in large paper edition, top edge gilt, all others uncut. Bookplate of previous owner on endpaper. Very nice.

London: A. Brown and Sons, Limited, 1915. Folio. [ii], xlvi, 240, [iii], pages. Illustrated with two hundred seventy half-tone reproductions in sepia and ten full-page plates in color. Bibliography. List of subscribers. FIRST EDITION, first issue, stated "Subscriber's Edition" limited to 250 hand-numbered copies, of which this is 34. Printed on a thick laid paper with wide margins. Tipped-in at the front is the printed announcement "Her Majesty the Queen has been graciously pleased to accept the first numbered copy of this work". A survey of the grand collection of Staffordshire Pottery (1620-1880) assembled by Major Cyril Earle, covering the Stuart through Victorian periods. As such, the collection illustrates the origins and development of what would become a significant English industry. Earthenware, stoneware, porcelain, creamware, bone china, and transfare were just a few of the types of pottery made, and in some cases pioneered, in Stafforshire. Some of the most well-known makers include… Read More

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..

London: A. Brown and Sons, Limited 5 Farrington Avenue, E.C. and at Hull and York, 1915. First edition. Containing upwards of 270 half-tone Reproductions in sepia and 10 full-page plates in Colour. xlvi, 240, (2) pp. 1 vols. 4to. Brown cloth, t.e.g., rest uncut. Nice copy. First edition. Containing upwards of 270 half-tone Reproductions in sepia and 10 full-page plates in Colour. xlvi, 240, (2) pp. 1 vols. 4to.

London: A. Brown and Sons, Limited, 1915. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio. [ii], xlvi, 240 pages of text, [iii] list of subscribers. Original brown hardcover cloth binding with moderate rubbing to extremities and slight bumping to corners; gilt lettering and decoration stamped on front cover and spine. Binding protected in custom stiff archival mylar. Contains nearly 270 half-tone reproductions in sepia, and ten full-page plates in color. With an introduction by Frank Falkner, and a supplementary Chapter by T. Sheppard, F.G.S. This, the Subscriber's edition, is limited to 250 copies, of which this is hand-numbered 71, and is printed on handmade parchment paper (thick high quality). Includes the printed announcement "Her Majesty the Queen has been graciously pleased to accept the first numbered copy of this work" laid-in at the front of the book. Ex-libris bookplate of Alderman John Brown unobtrusively on front pastedown, and a few ownership blindstamps… Read More