Decorated Stoneware Pottery of North America

HARDBACK, "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st. Stated.* Date of Publication: 1971* Publisher: Charles E. Tuttle Company.* Binding and cover condition: Beige hessian cloth, black & red titles to spine & impressed floral vignette to face. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to head and tail of spine. One small mark to lower front corner. VG+* Jacket condition: Monochrome photo-illustrated dust wrapper, white titles to face and blue, yellow & white titles to spine. Blue and yellow background. Price clipped, but showing a shelf price of $16.50 to publishers' adhesive label. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. In clear protective wrapper. VG++* Contents condition: Ex-library copy with usual stamps and labels. Several small tick marks and annotations in text. Coloured end papers (Cornish pink). Clean, crisp, tight and bright with only light reading wear, very slight marks to top-edge & library stamp to fore-edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG.* Illustrations: Numerous b/w photos to nearly every page within text throughout.* Pages: 214 pp. text. xviii pp., checklist of potteries, glossary, bibliography & index at rear.* Description: Charles Tuttle has published a number of books covering American antiques including Folk & Country antiques, Early American Ironware, Antique Tin and Tole Ware, Historical Spoons and this volume on North American Decorated Stoneware which enjoys the distinction of being one of the most collected and yet neglected categories in the stream of ceramic history. This is a well researched and fully illustrated handbook with more than 300 b/w photographs of early American and Canadian stoneware ~ from crocks, inkwells, porringers, and the proverbial jug to bottles, banks and blind pigs.* A NEAR VG+ text copy of the 1st/1st with some minor faults in a VG++ protected dust jacket.*