11952 A Guide for Collectors & Connoisseurs Pitman, London, 1988. Hardcover quarto, 192pp., 20 colour and 206 monochrome illustrations. Boards slightly worn at corners, page edges spotted. Dustwrapper discoloured and spotted in places, with small tears near spine and corners. Otherwise, in good condition. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Published in conjunction with the 250th anniversary of Wedgwood's birth and a Jubilee international loan exhibition of objects made before 1800, this volume constitutes an imaginative textual and visual history of English ceramic production in one of its most creative periods. It is a story which extends as far as the enterprising skills of Wedgwood himself and his partner Thomas Bentley - to North America, the continent of Europe, Australia, even to China, the first home of porcelain production. $24.00AUD
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