Kybalova, Jana — European Creamware

London, Hamlyn Publishing, 1989. Hardbound. Black cloth with gilt letters and outline on spine & front cover; cream colored, color-illustrated dust jacket. 236, [4] pp, 184 color and bw plates, 100s of smaller drawings of border detail. "Creamware is the English term for the refined, glazed ceramic -- often cream-coloured, hence its name -- that evolved from faience, and paved the way for the creation of porcelain. Its early development, from the midle of the eighteenth century, took place largely in England, in the hands of craftsmen like Josiah Wedgwood, Enoch Booth and Thomas Whieldon. By the early years of the nineteenth century, creamware was being made across all of Europe, and it is the full panorama of European creamware production, together with its English rotos, that this fascinating, scholarly and detailed book takes as its subject." (dj). VG (Dj is corner clipped and has slight age, otherwise clean.) .