Poole Pottery: Carter and Co. and Their Successors, 1873-1995

HARDBACK "SEMINAL COLLECTOR'S GUIDE," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1995* Publisher: Richard Dennis. * Binding and cover condition: Medium blue cloth, silver title to spine. No bumps or rubs, absolutely minimal shelf wear but no other visible faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated wrapper showing a development of the design by Irene Fawkes featuring a Truda Carter vase and a Harold Stables ship-model. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, but showing no shelf price. No visible faults. Now in clear un-attached protective wrapper. FINE * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Patterned end-papers with sepia designs. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: Colour & b/w photos, prints and line drawings throughout. * Pages: 188 pp. text. v pp. index & blank page at rear.* Description: As one of the most important, most distinctive and most collectable of 20th century British potteries, Poole is surprisingly little known. Few books have been published about this innovative company and its diverse products, and the most recent, though excellent, has long been out of print. With its hundreds of colour illustrations, and its highly detailed captions and information panels, this new book represents the distillation of years of research by the well-known Poole historian Leslie Hayward, and makes accessible to collectors for the first time the extraordinary range of wares associated with the factory. With its illustrations of virtually every known Poole product and its full list of factory marks and artists' monograms, this book will be indispensable for collectors, and for anyone interested in the history of 20th century design.* A FINE copy with absolutely minimal shelf wear. Colour illustrated dust jacket now in clear un-attached protective jacket.* Atterbury, Paul