Books about Antique British Porcelain

Including titles on Antique English Porcelain from the Major Factories

Hughes, Peter. Welsh China: An Illustrated Handbook.
Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Cymru - National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. 1983 28 pp, 30 ill., 8 colour. Contents include Cambrian Pottery, Nantgarw, Swansea, Glamorgan, South Wales pottery, Llanelli, etc. Includes both pottery and porcelain. Very good softcover. $15.00 [17266] Order

MacKenna, F. Severne. Cookworthy's Plymouth and Bristol Porcelain.
F. Lewis, Leigh-on-Sea. 1946 109 pp, 9 color, 58 b/w plates showing 104 ill., bibliography, index. Hand numbered 434 of an edition of 500. Very good hardcover, no dust jacket. $125.00 [15256] Order

Oddy, Dianne. 'Small But Perfectly Formed' : Chelsea, Derby figures.
author 2003 60 pp, 50+ ill., many colour, some makers marks, bibliography. Very good softcover. " . . . The history and description of the archive of antique Chelsea and Derby figure parts and moulds owned by the Spode Museum Trust" $20.00 [17273] Order

Rackham, Bernard and William Gibb. A Book of Porcelain: Fine Examples in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Adam and Charles Black, London. 1910 xv, 95 pp, 28 color tipped-in plates painted by Gibb. tips and spine ends rubbed, else vg. $20.00 [14200] Order

Solon, L. M. A Brief History of Old English Porcelain and its Manufactories: With an Artistic, Industrial, and Critical Appreciation of Their Productions.
Bemrose & Sons, Ltd., London. 1903 xvi,(256) pp, 74 b/w, 20 colour plates, t.e.g.; unnumbered copy of a limited edition of 1250. Sections on major manufacturers of the 18th and early 19th centuries: Bow, Chelsea, Longton Hall, Derby, Pinxton and Torksey, Nantgarw, Swansea, Worcester, Cau $40.00 [13924] Order

Turner, William, F.S.S. The Ceramics of Swansea and Nantgarw.
Bemrose & Sons, Ltd., London. 1897 xii, 349 pp, 33 plates, some color plus 9 b/w figures, list of marks, bibliography, index. Very good with with green cloth covers, light wear at extremities, a prior owner's name, a bookplate of Frances Lady Daresbury. Signed Frederick Rhead on title page $125.00 [14442] Order

Watney, Bernard. English Blue And White Porcelain Of The Eighteenth Century.
Faber and Faber, London. 1979 xxii,145pp, 8 color plates, text followed by 96+ b/w ill., bibliography, index. Includes sections on Bow, Limehouse, Lunds Bristol and Worcester, Newcastle and Longton Hall, Liverpool, Derby, Lowestoft, Caughley, Plymouth, Bristol and New Hall. Very good $45.00 [16934] Order

[Derby Porcelain]. Derby China: A history of the manufacture of china in Derby from 1750 to the present day.
County Bourough of Derby Museum & Art Gallery 1970 unpag. [30], 30 b/w plates including makers' marks. Very good softcover. $30.00 [17264] Order

[English Porcelain]. Plymouth and Bristol Hard Paste Porcelain.
City Art Gallery, Bristol 16 pp, 21 b/w ill., plus bibliography and marks. Covers Cookworthy and Champion and the first English 'true hard paste' or hard porcelain. $30.00 [17271] Order

[Harris Museum and Art Gallery]. The R.H. Smith Collection of English Porcelain.
Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, UK. 1954 32 pp, 20 b/w plates showing 25 objects, 66 catalogue entries including Bow, Briston, Caughley, Chelsea, Duesbury - Chelsea, Derby, Longton Hall, Pinxton, Swansea, Worcester, etc. Includes a 1959 typewritten correction of various attributions. Softcover, $40.00 [17367] Order

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