The Keramic Gallery, Containing Several Hundred Illustrations of Rare Curious and Choice Examples of Pottery and Porcelain from the Earliest Times to the beginning of the Present Century. With Historical Notices and Descriptions. In Two Volumes

CHAFFERS, William

Verlag: Chapman and Hall, London, 1872

Beschreibung

2 vols.: xxviii, 136; 137-228 p., interspersed with plates. 26 cm. 225 b&w mounted Woodburytype plates with tissue guards (plates 139 and 140 absent, probably never included). Half leather with marbled paper boards. Some wear to edges with bumped corners. Some foxing. Small labels on front pastedowns. Some wrinkling to plates. Photos show more than 400 ceramic objects. The first edition of an often reprinted work, based on a series of lectures on pottery and porcelain Chaffers gave to the Society of Arts in 1867. A Woodburytype is a molded copy of an original photographic carbon print. The process produces very high quality continuous tone images in monochrome, with surfaces that show a slight relief effect. Invented by Walter B. Woodbury, the process was used during the final third of the 19th century for illustrating fine books such as this set. It was ultimately displaced by halftone processes that produced prints of lower quality but were much cheaper. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 125597

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Keramic Gallery, Containing Several ...

Verlag: Chapman and Hall, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1872

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good

Auflage: First Edition.