ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH EARTHENWARE, 1660-1860

London: Lutterworth Press. Very Good/Very Good. 1961. First Edition. Hard Cloth Cover. 8vo Dust jacket complete in clear protective sleeve, unclipped price on flap. Brown cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. 51 plates with 4 in full colour. 238 pages clean and tight. SOONER OR LATER ALMOST EVERYONE WHO has any interest in antiques feels an urge to collect old earthenware, and there is abundant opportunity for the collector, provided he really knows what he is looking for. This book will guide him through the important early stages of his quest. It results from very many years of appreciative study, enrichcd iy frequent contacts with collectors throught the country, and founded on a technician's detailed comprehension of r1,., processes involved. The collector's choice maybe among frog mugs or picture plates, chimney-piece figures or lustre jugs. English developments in earthenwares and stonewares revolutionised eighteenth-century tableware, and the collector can trace each step in that advance to smooth-rimmed cups and gleaming plates. Sunderland has given its name to a distinctive range of highly-collectable work; Leeds ware is world-renowned and wildly mis-attributed; Scotland contributed more richly than sometimes is realised to our heritage of decorative and useful wares. With so much to choose from, the collector soon looks for advice. This book offers the necessary basic facts, clearly and without technicalities-the outward appearance of bodies, glazes and ornament, and the manufacturing developments that brought these about-and straightforward guidance for distinguishing between valuable originals and comparatively recent reproductions and present-day fakes. Only a collector conversant with these essentials has much hope of acquiring a bargain, let alone a collection that will give him lasting pleasure. The photograph on the jacket is of Ralph Wood figures, Elijah, Hudibras and Alderman Beckford, decorated in glazes in various tones of green, brown and white. In the collection of the Rt. Hon. the Viscount Mackintosh of Halifax, D.L., LL.D. .