Tiongco, Jose B. — The Oton Diggings

Book Good Dust Jacket Included Jose B. Tiongco English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket).; 24.5 x 32 cm.; 1.3 kg.; 40 pages with text followed by 257 black and white illustrations.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior and interior. The dust jacket is worn, and shows wear marks, edge wear, scuffs and scratches, the edges are slightly chipped and have minor tears, the right side of the front cover has a tear, the back cover shows also some tears at the edges, small chip at the bottom of the spine and at the top of the spine. The outside text block shows some yellowing. Previous owner stamp on title and publishers page. Interior with signs of wear, namely some pen written dedication on first page and some wear and minor yellowing throughout.; Publication focusing on the artifacts discovered in Otton, Philippines, which include Chinese and Siamese wares.; "It is not the purpose of the writer of this short study on Oton and the artifacts excavated from her soil to instruct. His knowledge of history is very limited and of pottery, more limit-ed still. He could only seek to entertain the kind reader for the few moments that it will take him to read his tale and look at the illustrations, on the subject matter of pottery and porcelain. The text is full of the writer's opinions, and the kind reader must feel free to disbelieve, disprove and other wise substitute them with his own, provided it will afford him pleasure, for truly this is the real aim of collecting pottery, that we enjoy its beauty and possession rather than become melancholy marksmen of its age and origin. We are not really the better nor the worse if a dish or bowl is a year or a thousand years old, but we are truly the better if whatever it is that we have, we enjoy having, and indeed the worse, if nothing at all seems to please us." excerpt from the foreword.