Lot 44
English Regional Potteries
Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 16 January 2013 at 10:00 GMT
Description
Mackenna, F. Severne Champion's Bristol porcelain. Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis, 1947. First edition, 4to, number 333 of 500 copies, 117 illustrations (including 4 full-page colour plates), red cloth gilt, dust jacket, dust jacket a little soiled, chipped and torn, slight soiling to covers and fading to spine; [Idem] Chelsea porcelain, the triangle and raised anchor wares. Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis, 1948. First edition, 4to, number 220 of 500 copies, 113 illustrations, blue cloth gilt, dust jacket, dust jacket neatly repaired on reverse and on spine in several places, slight soiling to dust jacket; Blunt, Reginald The Cheyne book of Chelsea china and pottery. London: Geoffrey Bles, [1924]. First edition, 56 plates (of 58 listed), coloured frontispiece, original blue boards, very occasional spotting and slight soiling to covers and spine, large stamps to first few pages; Bemrose, William Bow, Chelsea and Derby porcelain. London: Bemrose and Sons, 1898. 4to, frontispiece and 26 plates, original blue cloth gilt, no dust jacket, covers a little soiled and endpapers spotted; Towner, Donald The Leeds pottery. London: Cory, Adams and Mackay, 1963. First edition, 4to, 48 pages of plates, plus facsimile of Leeds Pottery pattern book, other illustrations and 4 colour plates, original cloth gilt, no dust jacket, slight fading, bumping and soiling to spine and cloth, occasional very light spotting; Nance, E. Morton The pottery and porcelain of Swansea and Nantgarw. Pembrokeshire: C. I. Thomas and Sons, [N.d.]. 4to, facsimile copy of 1942 edition, blue cloth gilt, no dust jacket; Twitchett, John A catalogue of china (chiefly Derby) (1879), the property of John Haslem. Swanage: 1988. 8vo, facsimile of 1879 catalogue, number 70 of 750 copies, green cloth gilt with dust jacket, dust jacket spine slightly faded; and 35 others (45)