J.F. Blacker. Published by The London Opinion Curio Club, London, 1908 (Second Edition).
Octavo. Hardback, blue cloth with embossed decorated front cover. 142 pages plus 6. 75 b/w illustrations. Generally good condition: fly-leaves and title-page slightly time-stained; top of one (uncut) page slightly torn and repaired; previous owner's name inscribed in pencil.
A very useful, comprehensive and profusely illustrated guide to antique English pottery, doing what it says in the blurb: "Giving a Short History of the English Factories, and showing how to apply Tests for Unmarked China before 1800".
"MANY books have been written on Old English China, and, in venturing to submit this addition to the number, we hope to reach collectors generally, and also those to whom the prohibitive price of the best books, with their lovely illustrations, has been an absolute barrier to possession. Our illustrations are many of them drawn with an ordinary pen from a specimen selected to illustrate a point. The writer hashad the advantage of handling pieces in a great many collections, and also dealing with china actually for sale."
