Author: RIS-PAQUOT,
Title: La Céramique Enseignée par la Reproduction et la Vue de ses différents produits. Terres cuites antiques-Poteries-Grès-Faïences et Porcelaines anciennes françaises et étrangères. Ouvrage destiné aux collectionneurs, aux amateurs, aux artistes et aux Gens de Monde. Orig. edn. [édition originale].
Description: Paris, Librairie Renouard/Henri Laurens, éd., 1888. Stout 8°. Contemp. quarter calf, marbled sides, spine in compartments with title and small decorative vignettes in gilt, horizontal decorative gilt border at tail, narrow double-barred horizontal line borders, orig. marbled e.p.'s. Hftitle (verso with printer's imprint at tail), ti.-p. printed in red and black, small publ. vignette at tail (verso blank). Dedication lve. printed in red and black, within a broad decorative red coloured border, on recte (verso blank). 358pp. Num. mainly coloured lithographed ills. on 41 plates (versos blank), 353 text-ills., incl. potter's marks, some tables in text, extensive explanatory glossary of terms used, table of text-ills. and figs., general table of contents, errata, notice to binder at very end. French language handbook to craftsmen, amateurs, artists and collectors of pottery, porcelain, grès, faïence, incl. earthenware fron the classical antiquity. Production, history, design, techniques, also including num. artist's and manufacturer's marks. A good to very good copy. Rare. (some light brown occasional spots to fore-edge, only visible when fanned).

Keywords: applied art craft pottery porcelain grès stoneware earthenware technique manufacture history production design antiquity handbook manual textbook