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Old Derby Porcelain and Its Artist-Workmen
by Frank Hurlbutt
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: T Werner Laurie Ltd, 1928 Book. Fair. Blue Buckram. 2nd Impression. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Affectionate guide to the porcelain produced by William Duesbury, who worked his way from apprentice painter of china ware to owning the largest business of its kind in Britain, and his equally proficient workmen. 312pp with index and sixty plates. Gilt lettering to top board and spine. Tissue guarded colour plate to frontis. Backstrip split down both sides. Top edges tinted, rest untrimmed. Left hinge showing, some foxing to edges and gift inscription to endpaper, otherwise fair copy. Loosely enclosed, related 4 page article illustrated in black and white..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Washburn Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013350
- Title
- Old Derby Porcelain and Its Artist-Workmen
- Author
- Frank Hurlbutt
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 2nd Impression
- Publisher
- T Werner Laurie Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1928
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
Terms of Sale
Washburn Books
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About the Seller
Washburn Books
Biblio member since 2010
Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire
About Washburn Books
Washburn Books is a small family business, based in Yorkshire. We offer a wide variety of hard-to-find and out-of-print books in our virtual store, as well as an offline search service. We take pride in our fast delivery of well packaged books.
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