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Chelsea Porcelain

King, William · 1922 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

London, Benn Brothers Limited, 1922. Hardbound. Brown cloth, gilt letters on spine, gilt decoration on front cover, xv, 135 pp. 7 color and 164 bw photographs on 64 sheets. The author was with the Victoria and Albert Museum. "The following pages embody the first attempt yet pu...

Baroque Pottery in Hungary: Faience of Holics and Tata

Kiss, Akos · 1966 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

Budapest, Corvina Press, 1966. Hardbound. White cloth with black lettering. Blue, color-illustrated dustjacket with Mylar cover. 100 pp. 8 color and 40 bw plates. With map end papers. Includes lists of color plates and bw illustrations. The author presents the finest pieces in...

The Keramic Gallery: Containing Several Hundred Illustrations of Rare Curious and Choice Examples of Pottery and Porcelain from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Xixth Century; with Historical Notices and Descriptions

Chaffers, William (Revised and edited by H.M. Cundall) · 1907 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

London, Gibbings and Company, 1907. Second. Hardcover. Brown cloth/boards; brick leather spine with gilt lettering. xxii + 468 pp. with color frontis and 560 illus. occasionally in color. Covers the pottery of the world from ancient times - pottery, maiolica, porcelain, faienc...

The Blue-China Book: Eary American Scenes and History Pictured in the Pottery of the Time

Camehl, Ada Walker · 1938 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

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New York, Halcyon House, 1938. Hardbound. Blue cloth. xx, [12], 321 pp. numerous bw plates and photographs. A very nicely illustrated and written reference on American Views on ceramics. VG, ex public library copy with remnants of pocket, marks on spine.

Georgian Pottery and Chasing on Metal =

Erlashova, S. · 1975 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

Leningrad, Aurora Art Publishers, 1975. Hardbound. White embossed boards with gilt letters on spine & front cover. 45 pp. followed by 112 mostly color plates; housed in glossy white slipcase. Text is in English and Russian. Showcases examples of pottery made by artisans in wha...

The Quest of the Antique

Hodgson, Mrs. Willoughby · 1924 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

London, Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1924. Hardbound. Red embossed, gilt titled cloth. 255 pp. 64 plates (incl. color frontispiece). A better-than-average copy of this title. A collection of articles on all facets of antiques including furniture, porcelain, china, kitchenalia, fas...

Decorative Tiles Throughout the Ages

Van Lemmen, Hans (Introduction) · 1988 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

New York, Crescent Press, 1988. Softcover. Glossy color-illustrated wraps. 8 pp. followed by 40 large color plates. Oversize, 11x15 inches. This sumptuous volume contains 40 pages printed on one side, with wonderful color. The annotation for each plate the reverse of each page...

The China Hunters Club

The Youngest Member (Prime, W. C.) · 1878 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1878. Hardbound. Green library buckram. 274 pp. 32 line engravings. VG-, evidence of pocket removal inside front cover, old dampstaining to pages towards the second half of the book at top .

Portraits in Pottery, with Some Account of Pleasant Occasions Incident to Their Quest

Lee, Albert · 1931 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

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Boston, Mass, The Stratford Company, 1931. Hardbound. Rust colored cloth boards with chocolate brown cloth spine with gilt lettering; gilt top edges; tan & illus. dust jacket with mylar cover, viii, 272 pp. with about 85 bw glossy plates. "An invaluable book for the collector ...

English Saltglazed Earthenware: "Saltglaze," with the Notes of a Collector

Luxmoore, Charles F.C. · 1970 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

London, Holland Press, 1970. reprint. Hardbound. Black cloth with gilt letters on spine, black and color-illustrated dust jacket. 64 pp. plus 89 mostly bw plates included on additional sheets. Title on spine & front cover: English Saltglazed Earthenware. This is a nice quality...

Wedgwood by Rathbone: A Reprint in Its Entirety with an Added Index of Old Wedgwood

Rathbone, Frederick (edited with an Index by Harry M. Buten) · 1968 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

Merion, PA, Buten Museum of Wedgwood, 1968. Reprint. Hardbound. Green cloth with gilt lettering. 258 pp. 65 reproductions of plates and documents in bw. The work consists of biographical and descriptive chapters, a list of marks used at Etruria and explanatory text to each obj...

English Transfer-Printed Pottery and Porcelain: A History of over-Glaze Printing

Williams-Wood, Cyril · 1981 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

London and Boston, Faber and Faber, 1981. Hardbound. Dark blue cloth with gilt letters on spine, light blue, glossy color-illustrated dust jacket. 249 pp. 8 color and 159 bw plates. The use of transfer printing on pottery and porcelain was one of the most revolutionary ceramic...

Antiques - Victoriana, Boxes, Fans, Chinese Bronze, Jade & Ceramics, Samplers, Pipes & Tobacco Jars, Porcelain, Clocks & Watches

DAVIS, FRANK; DE SAGER, WALTER; BLAKEMORE, KENNETH & OTHERS · 1974 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

Octopus Books, 1974. Hardbound. Green boards with dark, color-illustrated dustjacket. 128 pp. 85 color and 100 bw plates. VG .

Antiques: A Popular Guide to Antiques for Everyone

Philp, Peter (Introduction) · 1973 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

Octopus Books, 1973. Hardbound. Pumpkin cloth with color-illustrated dustjacket. 144 pp. 180 mostly color plates. VG/VG .

Antique Gold and Enamelware in Color

Ricketts, Howard · 1971 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

New York, Doubleday and Company, 1971. Hardbound. Red cloth with greenish, color-illustrated dustjacket. 124 pp. profusely illustrated in color. From the dust jacket: "Howard Ricketts traces the history of objects of vertu from Renaissance times onwards, treating in particular...

The Eccentric Teapot: Four Hundred Years of Invention

Clark, Garth · 1989 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

New York, Abbeville Press, 1989. Hardcover. Black cloth with color-illustrated, glossy dustjacket. 120 pp. 137 bw and color plates. Magazine article on teapots laid in. "Short and stout is the very least of it. Since the advent of tea drinking in China four thousand years ago,...

The Lucy Truman Aldrich Collection of European Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century

Casey, Elizabeth Temple · 1965 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

Providence, Rhode Island, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1965. Hardbound. Aqua cloth boards with gilt letters on spine & front cover; black and color-illustrated dust jacket in mylar cover; 157 pp. profusely illustrated mostly in bw with a few color. A "catalogu...

European Creamware

Kybalova, Jana · 1989 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

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 r...

Das Porzellan Der Europaischen Manufakturen IM XVIII. Jahrhundert - Eine Kunst-Und Kulturgeschichte

Hofmann , Friedrich · 1932 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$51.00 (€46.27 | £38.60 | ¥8,144)

Berlin, IM Propylaen, 1932. Hardbound. New orange library buckram. 542 pp. 24 colour tipped-in plates & 567 bw illustrations. Blackened page edges all around (as intended). Text is entirely in German. A whale of a reference work, profusely illustrated. Lengthy index. Includes ...

Meissner Porzellan

Zimmermann, Ernst · 1926 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

Leipzig, Germany, Karl W. Hiersemann, 1926. Hardbound. Blue embossed cloth. xv, 369 pp. 14 color plates, 48 bw plates and 121 BW text illustrations. Text is entirely in German. Chronicles the story of Meissner porcelain from its beginnings and through the 1700s and 1800s. Incl...