Author: HOWARD, DAVID SANCTUARY
Title: Chinese Armorial Porcelain: Volume I and II (2 Volumes)
Description: Faber and Faber Limited, London and Heirloom & Howard Limited, England. 0, 1st Edition. Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket); VOLUME 1: published by Faber and Faber, London, 1974, ISBN: 0571098118, 23 x 29 cm, 4.2 kg, 1034 pages with black-and-white illustrations and a few in colour.; Used with minor signs of wear on the dust jacket and outside text block. Tiny wear mark on the top of the front cover and minor scratches and wear marks on the front, spine and back cover. Minor bump on the of the top right corner. Interior in very good condition with minor signs of wear. Very good condition overall. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover.; OUT OF PRINT.; The major part of David Howard's book consists of a dictionary of armorial services painted in China for the British market between 1695 and 1820. Pieces of nearly 2,000 services are illustrated by styles chronologically, the arms blazoned and the familes described; and in all 2900 services are recorded. Perhaps the greatest value of the book to the collector lies in its extensive analyses of this ware.; VOLUME 2: published by Heirloom & Howard Limited, England, 2003, ISBN: 0954438914 (leather bound, limited edition of 200 copies in slipcase), 23.5 x 30.3 cm; 4.3 Kg; 904 pages with 1,880 colour illustrations, 1,500 armorial services described.; Used book with signs of wear on the dust jacket and exterior text block. The dust jacket has minor wear signs and scratches on the front cover, spine and back cover. Interior with signs of wear, namely some small wear marks on the top of a few pages. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover. Very good condition overall.; The material in Chinese Armorial Porcelain II is almost entirely additional to the first volume, containing a new introduction and four new chapters on aspects of the China Trade. All the appendices are revised and extended and the index of mottoes and index of services cover both volumes (the later containing an alphabetical list of over 4,000 services - more than 3,320 illustrated and 680 unillustrated - all made for the British and American market). This is an essential companion for those who own the first volume but this book certainly stands on its own and, as Garter King of Arms writes in the foreword, 'is an astounding work - destined to be a major reference source in the future'. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included.

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