Author: GODDEN, GEOFFREY A.
Title: Encyclopaedia of British Pottery and Porcelain Marks
Description: Barrie & Jenkins, Communica-Europa. 1977. (ISBN: 0257657827). Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, English text; Hardcover (with dustjacket); 765 pages with illustrations; 18.7 x 25.5 cm; 1.879 Kg; Signed by the author on front free endpaper; The dust jacket is price clipped and is slightly faded on the spine; Dust jacket wrapped in a permanent adhesive cover.; Used book in good condition.; This authoritative work lists over four thousand British ceramic marks. The main section is on alphabetic order of potters with address, date of establishment, working period, type of wares, a brief history, the location of typical specimens and specialized reference books. Then follows reproductions of the marks used by each potter, in chronological order, with their period.; "The most efficient, comprehensive and well-arranged collection of English ceramic marks yet published..exceed by nearly three thousand the number of marks in any comparable work of reference." The Connoisseur; "Of a scale and comprehensive not previously existing..admirable in layout, legibility of type-faces and reproduction of illustration." The Antique Collector; "The result of years of brilliant, joyful and laborious study." The Observer; Geoffrey A. Godden is the author of many authoritative works on ceramics. Director of a leading British firm of wholesale dealers in antiques, supplying firms and museums all over the world, and also a consultant to numerous museums and private collections. Good/Dust Jacket Included.

Keywords: 0257657827 British Pottery and Porcelain


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