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Lot 316

[POTTERY]. Pair of Illustrated Titles About Collecting Pott...

Estimate: $200 - $400

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[POTTERY]. Pair of Illustrated Titles About Collecting Pottery, including: PRICE, Captain R. K. Astbury, Whieldon, and Ralph Wood Figures, and Toby Jugs. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1922. 4to. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. [xxvi], 140 pp. Publisher?s brown cloth backstrip over light brown cloth, front board stamped in dark brown, spine ruled and tooled in gilt, in the scarce publisher?s dust jacket (jacket with later lamination, tape repairs to verso, some chipping, tears, scratches to jacket, cloth spine lightly bumped at edges, some foxing to edge of text block). Fine in a good jacket. And EARLE, Major Cyril. The Earle Collection of Early Staffordshire Pottery Illustrating Over Seven Hundred Different Pieces. London: A. Brown and Sons, [ca. 1915]. 4to. Profusely illustrated in color and sepia. xlvi, 240 pp. Publisher?s full brown cloth, boards ruled in blind, front board and spine stamped and lettered in gilt (spine toned, some wear to binding at edges, endleaves toned and foxed, rear hinge just starting, ffep with a tear at the lower margin, some occasional thumbsoiling in text). Near fine. FIRST EDITIONS.