FS: china painting/prints/Persian pottery
Gerard Gormley
CONTENTS
Vance-Phillips, L~. BOOK OF THE CHINA PAINTER: A Complete Guide For the
Keramic Decorator~.
Weitenkampf, Frank~. HOW TO APPRECIATE PRINTS~. SOLD
Yoshida, Mitsukuni. IN SEARCH OF PERSIAN POTTERY~.
SOLD means order received but payment not yet in hand. First back-up
order honored in event original buyer has a change of heart or wallet.
Vance-Phillips, L~. BOOK OF THE CHINA PAINTER: A Complete Guide For the
Keramic Decorator~. NY: Montague Marks, 1896. First Edition (Same Date on
title-page & copyright-page), First Printing (No Additional Printings
indicated). Hard to find. No dust jacket. 311 pages: Index & Glossary,
150 black & white illustrations in text + 6 of 7 mounted chromolithographic
plates. Keywords: practical papers on special branches of the art of
keramic decoration, instructions for underglaze decoration & glass
painting. Binding height: 9-1/2". Black half leather & black cloth, spine
gold-stamped -- a library rebinding. Book Good: ex-library, moderate
bumping & rubbing to fore-corners, heavy rubbing (1/8" loss) to spine-
top/bottom. Binding strong & tight, inside Very Good aside from usual
library trappings (including library name blind-stamped on plates). 1252~.
US$44.95
Weitenkampf, Frank~. HOW TO APPRECIATE PRINTS~. NY: Moffat, Yard and
Company, 1908. First Edition ("Published, November, 1908" + Same Date on
title-page & copyright-page). Hard to find. No dust jacket, as issued.
330 pages: Index, 33 black & white plates. Keywords: . Binding height: 8-
1/4". Blue full cloth, gold-stamping. Book Good: ex-library, heavy
rubbing to bottom edges & fore-corners & spine-top/bottom, 3/8" tear & some
loss to spine-bottom, two 1/8" tears to spine-top, front joint rubbed,
library number on spine, binding started at half-title page & back hinge,
usual library trappings (but none on plates). Book pluses: plates Fine,
text Near Fine (slight browning to page margins). 1253~. US$19.95 SOLD
Yoshida, Mitsukuni (Translated by John M Shields)~. IN SEARCH OF PERSIAN
POTTERY~. NY/Tokyo/Kyoto: Weatherhill/Tankosha, 1972. First English
Edition (so stated on copyright page). Firsts this nice very hard to find.
Dust jacket present, price intact. 161 pages: 115 illustrations, including
18 in full color, endpaper maps. Keywords: a nicely illustrated
introduction to Persian pottery. Binding height: 8-1/2". Blue half cloth
(gilt) over pictorial-decorated boards. Book Fine. Dust jacket Very Good
to Near Fine: light wrinkle to top fore-corners & spine-top, lightest
rubbing & scratching to front (light to back), 1 small spot inside spine.
1254~. US$49.95
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