[Rarebooks] fs: Better Books on Ceramics

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

Our newest printed catalog -"Books on Ceramics" is being released this 
week. If you would like a copy please let us know. We will be featuring 
ceramics-related material on our blog this week as well- check out 
<http://foggygates.blogspot.com/> for today's blog about how Josiah 
Wedgwood caused a great brouhaha between two Victorian ceramics scholars...

and now for today's books, from our new catalog-

Crisp, Frederick Arthur. PORCELAIN AND POTTERY BEARING THE ARMS OF THE 
LIVERY COMPANIES OF THE CITY OF LONDON IN THE POSSESSION OF FREDERICK 
ARTHUR CRISP.
Privately Printed: 1911. Edition limited to 150 numbered copies.
An enjoyable catalog of Company-arms bearing ceramics in the collection of 
the noted antiquarian Frederick Arthur Crisp. There were 26 pieces in all, 
bearing arms of the blacksmiths, brewers, butchers, carpenters, 
clothworkers, coopers, cordwainers, cutlers, founders, fishmongers, 
joiners, merchant tailors, needle makers, parish clerks, poulters, 
saddlers, salters, bricklayers, upholders, watermen, and weavers companies. 
The six illustrated pieces show the arms of the carpenters, clothworkers, 
joiners, parish clerks, upholders, and weavers. Each piece and its crest 
are described, and there is also a list of the mottoes. A good half the 
pieces were Chinese export, the others a smattering of Leeds pottery, and 
Lambeth and Bristol delftware. Crisp published several limited edition 
books featuring his collections, and they are uniformly elegantly conceived 
and executed. Hardcover. 10.5"x12", [i] 7, [iv] pages, printed one-side 
only, plus 6 color plates. Blue cloth with parchment spine and tips and 
leather label, as issued. Covers with moderate soil, a little internal 
soil.  [05660]  $275.00

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Dorveaux, Paul. LES POTS DE PHARMACIE LEURS INSCRIPTIONS PRESENTEES SOUS 
FORME DE DICTIONNAIRE.
Paris; A Maloine, Editeur: 1908. Edition limited to 150 copies.
A dictionary of several thousand inscriptions found on antique drug jars 
from throughout Europe, identifying what the contents were. The author was 
Librarian at the School of Pharmacy at the University of Paris, and well 
qualified to make such a study. He also includes introductory material 
about the use of drugs and drug jars from the Middle Ages through the 18th 
century. A scarce study. Softcover. 5.75"x9", 89 pages plus 14 b/w plates. 
Some cover soil, pages browned, a little wear; a nice copy of a scarce, 
fragile book.  [08310] $375.00

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Franks, Augustus W. JAPANESE POTTERY, BEING A NATIVE REPORT WITH AN 
INTRODUCTION AND CATALOGUE BY AUGUSTUS W. FRANKS.
London; Chapman and Hall, Ltd.: 1880.
The South Kensington Museum (now the V&A) helped arranged an exhibit of 
antique Japanese pottery at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 
1876, and after the Exhibition the pottery was shipped to England for the 
Museum's collection. A report on Japanese ceramics was prepared by M. 
Shioda and translated by T. Asami, and that text, as well as illustrations 
of the exhibited pottery, forms the basis of the present book. The text was 
corrected by B. Nanjio and K. Kasawara, and new, expanded descriptions of 
the items written for this book. An important early report on Japanese 
pottery. Hardcover. 5.5"x8", xvi + 112 pages, b/w illustrations; light 
wear  [04689] $50.00



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