DECORATIVE ARTS from Franklin Gilliam :: Rare Books

Milan: The Company, 1900. . Folio portfolio with 23 loose chromolithographic plates; paper-covered stiff board with overall pattern of plates in gray tones; four hinges of brown cloth; very slight wear; Numbering of the plates is not sequential as is often the case in this type of portfolio. Each plate is 10 3/4 x 7 inches

New York: Tudor Publishing, . . 8vo, blue cloth, gilt; pages adjacent to each plate discolored by a migration from the coated stock of the plate; ownership signature on front free endpaper. New Edition

Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1931. . 8vo, stiff cream wrappers; front pictorial

Syracuse: The Museum, 1981. . 4to, pink stiff wrappers, spine faded Exhibition catalogue of this American potter's workWilliam H. Grueby (1867-1925) was a practicing ceramist who became fascinated by the matte glazes he saw on French pottery at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago,1893. He returned to Boston, opened his own business, and spent the next five years perfecting… Read more about this item