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Buckram over bevelled boards, gilt cover-title, top edge gilt, 4to, 32 cm, xlvi, [1], 150, [1] pp, 50 plates. Uncommon. The post-exhibition illustrated catalogue. It includes substantial introductions on Dwight's Stoneware by Sir Arthur H. Church and on Slip Ware and Delft Ware by J. W. L. Glaisher. Other material relates to Tudor wares, Stone wares, Astbury ware, salt-glaze work, etc. From R.L. Hobson's introduction: "The work of the old English potter, as illustrated in this Exhibition, is for the most part a purely native product, a rustic craft, home grown and racy of the soil. It is quaint, homely, and unsophisticated, and, if we except the phenomenon of Dwight's figures, it is without any lofty pretensions, but intended rather to supply the needs and to ornament the houses of simple folk. The mediaeval pottery was made for the kitchen and the cellar, the slipware for the ale-house and the cottage. Delft is a cheap substitute for plate and Chinese porcelain, and though the Staffordshire potters in the last fifty years of our period catered for the tea-table, the decorations of their wares, quaint and original as they are, were but the children of a rustic imagination untrammeled by the rules of arL On the other hand, some of the Delft and the finer stonewares made in London, and in the large towns of Bristol and Liverpool, are imbued with foreign ideas and betray a more cosmopolitan spirit. Dwight and Elers followed German and Chinese models; and Italian, French, and Chinese influences are apparent in the Delft decoration. But even these foreign types became strangely anglicized in the process of repro- duction, and none of them has left a lasting impress on the pottery of this country." Bookplate of John R. Menzies on front pastedown endpaper, spine faded and covers slightly rubbed, endpapers faintly foxed and a little scattered minor spotting elsewhere, otherwise Very Good. Seller Inventory # ABE-52597
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