The China Collector's Pocket CompanionSampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1874 - 144 pages |
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aîné Amstel Amsterdam anchor arabesques Bavaria blue camaïeu blue decoration Bristol Brussels Burslem Caffaggiolo Capo di Monte Casa Pirota Castel Durante Caughley Charles Chelsea Chinese style circa Clignancourt cloth extra Cobridge colours Cream-coloured ware Cretté crown cup and saucer cypher decorated in blue Delft Derby Detached bouquets Diamond Diruta Dish Dresden earliest mark Earthenware Earthenware and porcelain emblems Faenza faïence figures flowers Fortnum Fountaine Frankenthal Gilding glaze Gotha Gubbio Hanley Hannong Imitation impressed initials inscribed Jacq Landscapes Lane End Lille Louvre Ludwigsburg Lustred Maestro Giorgio manufactory Marieberg Mark deposited Marryat Marseilles Minton monogram Moustiers style Naples Niederviller Orazio Fontana ornaments Palliser Paris Pesaro Petersburg pieces Plaque Plate polychrome decoration Pottery Probably Queen's ware Reynolds Rouen Rouen style Savona Sceaux Seine-et-Marne Seine-et-Oise Sèvres Shelton signature Spode stamped stencilled stoneware Strasburg Strasburg style Swansea Tazza teapot UNKNOWN MARKS Urbino vase Venice Wedgwood Weesp Worcester wreaths
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Page 141 - SCHWEINFURTH'S HEART OF AFRICA. The Heart of Africa. Three Years' Travels and Adventures in the Unexplored Regions of the Centre of Africa. From 1868 to 1871. By Dr.
Page 142 - Bida. The Authorized Version of the Four Gospels, with the whole of the magnificent Etchings on Steel, after drawings by M. BIDA, in 4 vols., appropriately bound in cloth extra, price 3/. 3^. each. Also the four volumes in two, bound in the best morocco, by Suttaby, extra gilt edges, l8/.
Page 142 - ILLUSTRATIONS of China and its People. By J. THOMSON, FRGS Being Photographs from the Author's Negatives, printed in permanent Pigments by the Autotype Process, and Notes from Personal Observation. *** The complete work embraces 200 Photographs, with Letter-press Descriptions of the Places and People represented.
Page 141 - I vol., crown 8vo, cloth. (A.) History of the Ceramic Art: Descriptive and Analytical Study of the Potteries of all Times and of all Nations. By ALBERT JACQUEMART. 200 Woodcuts by H. Catenacci and J. Jacquemart. 12 Steel-plate Engravings, and 1000 Marks and Monograms.
Page 141 - This is one of those few gift books which, while they can certainly lie on a table and look beautiful, can also be read through with real pleasure and profit.
Page 142 - Forbes (JG) Africa: Geographical Exploration and Christian Enterprise, from the Earliest Times to the Present- By J. GRUAR FORBES. Crown 8vo., cloth extra, 7*.
Page 142 - Chromo-lithographs and i37 Woodcuts, from Drawings from Nature by E. Monjat, cloth extra, gilt edges, 35*.
Page 142 - ... work may be gathered from the fact that upwards of twelve hundred and fifty thousand francs, or fifty thousand pounds, have been expended on its production, and it has obtained for MM. Hachette the Diplome d'Honneur at the Vienna Exhibition. The English edition will contain the whole of the i32 steel etchings, and in addition some very exquisite woodcut ornaments. The GOSPEL OF ST. MATTHEW will contain 4i Steel Etchings. The GOSPEL OF ST. MARK „ 24 „ The GOSPEL OF ST. LUKE „ 40
Page 142 - It is intended to publish each Gospel separately, and at intervals of from six to twelve months : and in order to preserve uniformity, the price will in the first instance be fixed at -£3 3.?.
Page 141 - HISTORY OF THE CERAMIC ART. A Descriptive and Philosophical Study of the Pottery of All Ages and All Nations. By Albert Jacquemart. Containing 200 Woodcuts by H. Catenacci and Jules Jacquemart, 12 engravings in aquafortis by Jules Jacquemart, and 1000 Marks and Monograms.