[Rarebooks] fs: Classic 1873 Study of Bristol Porcelain

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

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Owen, Hugh. TWO CENTURIES OF CERAMIC ART IN BRISTOL BEING A HISTORY OF THE 
MANUFACTURE OF "THE TRUE PORCELAIN" BY RICHARD CHAMPION.

London; Bell and Daldy: 1873.

Hugh Owen spent twelve years preparing the material for this book, and 
gained access to some of Richard Champions' notebooks courtesy of his 
descendents. Solon notes that the study "may be praised as being a model of 
what a perfect monograph might be expected to be". In addition to being a 
history of the Bristol works it is, as Solon points out, much more-

     "What renders Owen's work extremely valuable, even to the foreign 
collector, is the amount of correlative information pertinently introduced 
in the course of the narration. The undertaking of Champion and Cookworthy 
had necessarily brought them in contact with the chief potters, as well as 
with the art patrons, merchants, and manufacturers of the times; out of the 
intercourse the Bristol potters had to keep up with official and private 
personages, springs a long roll of documents and business correspondence, 
most interesting to peruse for the light they throw upon the general 
condition of the British trade and industries during the second half of the 
eighteenth century".

Owen also devotes a half-dozen pages to Bristol glass of the period, and 
includes a nice color plate of an example.

Hardcover. 7.5"x10.5", xxiv + 420 pages with 142 wood engravings in the 
text; plus 16 full-page wood engraved plates, 4 full-page steel-engraved 
plates, and 1 colored plate. Covers rather worn and a bit threadbare, rear 
hinge cracked and a bit wobbly; bookplate removed; minor internal soil. 
[08306] $350.00


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