Author: Moore, N. Hudson.
Title: The Old China Book, Including Staffordshire, Wedgwood, Lustre and Other English Pottery and Porcelain.
Description: NY: Tudor Publishing Company, (1936). (1936). - 8vo, maroon cloth (bumped & lightly rubbed; small, light stain to spine) titled in gilt, in dw (rubbed & chipped; tear to spine with 2 pieces out; rear panel soiled with piece out of top edge). xi, [iii] & 300 pp. (owner's bookplate on front pastedown with light offsetting to endpaper). B&W frontispiece, blue & white title vignette & B&W illustrations. Very good in fair dw.

This book "describes these choice porcelains accurately, gives the marks in carefully worded descriptions, shows by means of many illustrations the variations, and aims to assist the would-be collector in choosing his specimens..Details of interest aside from the manufacture of the pottery render the book entertaining to those not necessarily collectors."--From the dw. Good .

Keywords: ANTIQUES; COLLECTIBLES; ENGLISH; CHINA; POTTERY; PORCELAIN; STAFFORDSHIRE; LIVERPOOL; WEDGWOOD; LUSTRE; N. HUDSON MOORE; ILLUSTRATIONS.

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