Bernard Rackham:

Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery & Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge [2 volumes].

Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, 1987. Limited edition reprint of the 1935 edition, complete in two hardback volumes. 4to (30cm by 22cm), xlvii, 431pp; xv, 266pp b&w illustrations. 43 colour plates in volume 1. Original blue cloth, dustwrappers. There is an attractive bookplate to the front pastedown of each volume, and some light foxing to the top edge of the text blocks, else the books are in very good condition. The dustwrappers are in good to very good condition (some chafing of the corners). The dustwrappers have now been put in mylar covers to protect them. This edition was limited to 1000 sets; this set is not numbered. ISBN (for the set) 1851490337

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Bernard Rackham

Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery & Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge

Cambridge , Antique Collectors' Club , 1987. Cloth. A catalogue of the Glaisher Collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, vol. I of a limited edition of one-thousand copies. A comprehensive, complete catalogue of the Glaisher collection of pottery and porcelains, held at the Fitzgerald Museum in Cambridge curated by James Whitbread Lee Glaisher. Written by Bernard Rackham, curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum, authority known for his pioneering research on Italian maiolica. Limited edition to one-thousand copies, the present number seven-hundred-and-five. Vol. I of two only. Illustrated with forty-three colour plates. Collated, complete. With unclipped dust wrapper. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely with only minor shelf wear, minor bumping to head and tail of spine. Dust wrapper unclipped and very smart with minor shelf wear only, minor chipping to wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. With forty-three full page plates. Collated, complete. Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Fine/Very Good Indeed.

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