Antique English Porcelain - Types Makers Dates / In-Depth Illustrated Book

Description

The stunning photography in this early out-of-print book sets it apart as one of the better identification guides to antique English pottery and porcelain.  This book “begins with the assumption that readers know little of the history of porcelain, how it is made, formed and decorated, and explains these in the clearest terms.  There then follow chapters on the history and characteristics of the main and several minor makes of porcelain, and typical specimens are illustrated.”
GODDEN’S GUIDE TO ENGLISH PORCELAIN
by Geoffrey Godden, Wallace Homestead 1978/1992.
This lavishly illustrated book covers by chapter:  Porcelain, the Material;  Manufacturing Process;  Ceramic Forms;  Decoration and Marketing;  The Major Eighteenth Century Factories;  The Hybrid Hard-Paste Porcelains;  Early Bone-chine and Felspar Porcelain;  The Major Nineteenth-Century Factories;  The Late Porcelains;  On Forming a Collection;  Some Helpful Hints. There is information on Marks and Makers, and in-depth text on the history of the many factories of these various wares. The bibliography, listing reference and background books on every aspect of the subject, is particularly valuable for established and new collectors alike.  Manufactures include Wedgwood, Spode, Chamberlain-Worcester, Staffordshire, Minton, Coalport, Davenport, Derby, Doulton, and more.  This is a most comprehensive text on English porcelain – beautifully illustrated.   It is a must-buy book for the novice or advanced collector, dealer, or historian of English porcelain.
Oversize / heavy 9.7” x 12.25” hardback with dust cover in very good
condition.
223 pages.
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