HOBSON, R.L.

Worcester Porcelain.

Name: Worcester Porcelain.
Brand: HOBSON, R.L.
SKU: 117690
Price: 483.00 USD
Availability: InStock

A description of the ware from the wall period to the present day.

Stock Code 117690

London, Bernard Quaritch, 1910.

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A lovely copy of this survey of Worcester porcelain from its inception in 1751 by Dr John Wall (1708–1776) through to 1910. Robert Lockhart Hobson (1872-1941) was keeper of the Department of Ceramics and Ethnography at the British Museum and became an authority on Far Eastern ceramics.

First edition; 4to (36 x 28 cm); 17 chromolithograph plates including frontispiece and 92 collotype plates, each with tissue guards; publisher's cloth, gilt lettering to upper board and spine, a little rubbing and fading, still a very good copy; xi, 208pp.

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