The Earle Collection of Early Staffordshire Pottery. Introduction by Frank Falkner; supplementary chapter by T. Sheppard by Earle, Cyril

HardPress Publishing, 2012-01-10. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

A. Brown and Sons, Limited, 1915-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 12x10x1. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Wear to dj, with tape. 3 preliminary leaves, v-xlvi, 240 pages, color frontispiece, illustrations, IX color plates.

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.

London: A. Brown & Sons Ltd. xv 239pp hardback, with 'upwards of' 270 half-tone reproductions in sepia and 10 full page colour plates, hardback, brown cloth gilt, gilt Toby illudtration to front cover, frontis tissue-gurad browned, else very good, limited edition of 250 . Very Good. Hardcover. 1915.

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