The Blue-China Book: Early American Scenes and History Pictured in the Pottery of the Time; With a Supplementary Chapter Describing the Celebrated ... D. C., And a Complete Checking List of Kn - Softcover

Camehl, Ada Walker

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331267420 ISBN 13: 9781331267423

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Blue-China Book: Early American Scenes and History Pictured in the Pottery of the Time; With a Supplementary Chapter Describing the Celebrated Collection of Presidential China in the White House at Washington, D. C., And a Complete Checking List of Known Examples of Anglo The man who will tell the story of a race, a nation, or a period according to the clothing, dwellings, utensils, and everyday art of it will be, vow, the only true historian of them all, and vividly in his pages the age and people shall live again, though wars and dynasties and that elaborate comedy called politics be but the edges and binding of the book. So let us glorify our hobby, Hobbinal my friend. Is it not part of the true stuff of history? Don't we know that about the doings of eighteenth century English potters rests a nimbus of chronicle as well as of romance? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1331267420
• ISBN 13: 9781331267423
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 504