English China and Its Marks
by Ormsbee, Thomas H
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
-
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York: Channel Press, 1959. Cloth in mylar protected dust jacket. 200 pp., with appendixes and index. Illustrated. This is the first book devoted exclusively to English China ever published in the United States. It is a comprehensive record of English potteries and porcelain factories from 1750 to 1870. Arranged alphabetically it covers 205 makers, along with 688 marks that each pottery or factory used. A clean, tight copy in a price-clipped, chipped dust jacket. SCARCE. Size: Octavo. First Edition.. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by W. Robert Suda.
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- Bookseller
- Books & Bidders, Antiquarian Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000676
- Title
- English China and Its Marks
- Author
- Ormsbee, Thomas H
- Illustrator
- W. Robert Suda
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- Channel Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- ENGLISH CHINA, POTTERY, PORCELAIN
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.