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New York: Tudor Publishing, . . 8vo, blue cloth, gilt; pages adjacent to each plate discolored by a migration from the coated stock of the plate; ownership signature on front free endpaper. New Edition

Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1931. . 8vo, stiff cream wrappers; front pictorial

Syracuse: The Museum, 1981. . 4to, pink stiff wrappers, spine faded Exhibition catalogue of this American potter's workWilliam H. Grueby (1867-1925) was a practicing ceramist who became fascinated by the matte glazes he saw on French pottery at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago,1893. He returned to Boston, opened his own business, and spent the next five years perfecting his matte glazes, which he introduced on vases in 1898. Grueby perfected a variety of colors, including yellow, aqua, and pink. But it was the Grueby green that became a sensation.At the 1900 Paris Exposition, Grueby won two gold medals and one silver medal, winning over some pieces of Rookwood pottery. It achieved renown in America at the 1901 Pan American Exposition in Buffalo. By 1905 Grueby pottery was available at the Tiffany Studios in New York where clients selecting furniture for an entire room could see it all assemlbed on a trial basis in one of the studios provided for that… Read More

Milan: The Company, 1900. . Folio portfolio with 23 loose chromolithographic plates; paper-covered stiff board with overall pattern of plates in gray tones; four hinges of brown cloth; very slight wear; Numbering of the plates is not sequential as is often the case in this type of portfolio. Each plate is 10 3/4 x 7 inches