Old Derby Porcelain and Its Artist-Workmen by Frank Hurlbutt - 1925

T. Werner Laurie, 1928. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: . 312 pages; 60 plates. Moderate wear to the blue covers; cracked front hinge; pages yellowed; foxing to some pages; a good old book overall. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Antiques & Collectables; Inventory No: 168206. .

Hardcover. Good. Publisher: T. Werner Laurie Ltd., Date of Publication: 1925, Binding: hardcover, Condition: Good, Description: Spine some wear, some pages stained, most pages moisture rippled,

T.Werner Laurie Ltd, 1928. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1928. No Edition Remarks. 312 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Binding remains firm.Pages are moderately tanned. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and noticeable rubbing to surfaces.Strong tanning to spine and edges.

Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, 1925. This is a book for the serious collector or dealer in antiques. Very useful chronology of the company, including all marks used, "References", Very good B&W plates, Index. 8 5/8" X 7" in hard covers. EX-LIBRARY. Covers soiled and worn - replacement backstrip - covers moderately soiled and worn rear hinge starting to crack: FAIR+ to GOOD- condition. Contents very nice. 312pp + 59 plates and explanatory captions.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd., 1925. An excellent reference copy, with 59 rich black and white gravure plates.. Rebound in library hard cover. G-VG/No Jacket. Large Octavo.

London: T Werner Laurie Ltd, 1928 Book. Fair. Blue Buckram. 2nd Impression. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Affectionate guide to the porcelain produced by William Duesbury, who worked his way from apprentice painter of china ware to owning the largest business of its kind in Britain, and his equally proficient workmen. 312pp with index and sixty plates. Gilt lettering to top board and spine. Tissue guarded colour plate to frontis. Backstrip split down both sides. Top edges tinted, rest untrimmed. Left hinge showing, some foxing to edges and gift inscription to endpaper, otherwise fair copy. Loosely enclosed, related 4 page article illustrated in black and white..

Werner Laurie, 1925. Hardcover. Good/Poor. First Edition. Unmarked And Unworn. Front Hinge Cracked But Binding Robust. The Unclipped Dj Has Wear, Tear And Some Paper Loss.

T Werner Laurie. Good+. 1925. Hardcover. 312pp, sixty plates bound in white cloth spine/purple boards, bottom corners rubbed off ; Quarto .

New York: F Stokes. 1925. Hardcover. Fine in NF dj (sm sp top chip, old tear & repairs on dj obverse); hardback .

London: T. Werner Laurie, Ltd, 1928. Second Impression. Hardbound. VG- (Mylar cover has some scuffs; pages have some instances of foxing.). Blue embossed cloth with gilt letters on spine and front cover and gilt decoration on front coverl; mylar cover. 312 pp. 60 plates, color frontispiece, w/ tissue guard. "It is to enable readers to recognise the artist-workman by his work on specimens of Old Derby Porcelain, whether in their own collections, in the museums, or in the dealers' shops, the sales of old china, or wherever else the chase, the thrilling pursuit, of such specimens may take them, that this work is written. And to a Collector how much this knowledge increases not only the interest, but also the value, of an old Derby piece. One may have a beautiful old picture, or a fine statue, which may be something which is charming and artistically satisfying; but if one knows not the artist or the sculptor, it has lost nine-tenths of its interst and value. The examples illustrated here are selected… Read More