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A Potter's Book
by Leach, Bernard
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
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Sturminster Newton, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1960. Book. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. January 1960 reprint of the 1945 second edition (first edition published in 1940). Buff colour cloth with title in dark red on spine and front cover. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers. Previous owners name neatly written at the top of the front endpaper. Some foxing to edges of textblock. Dustjacket condition: Fair to good, generally shelfworn, with some general light soiling to rear cover of jacket. Not price-clipped. 294pp. Four colour plates and many b/w illustrations. This book was the first treatise by a potter on the workshop traditions which were handed down by the Koreans and the Japanes from the greatest period of Chinese ceramics in the Sung dynasty. It deals with four types of pottery, Japanese raku, English slipware, stoneware and Oriental porcelain..
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- Bookseller
- Karen Jakobsen Art & Design Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008322
- Title
- A Potter's Book
- Author
- Leach, Bernard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1960
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- soyetsu yanagi, michael cardew
- Bookseller catalogs
- Decorative Art & Design (20th Century);
Terms of Sale
Karen Jakobsen Art & Design Books
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About the Seller
Karen Jakobsen Art & Design Books
Biblio member since 2019
Sturminster Newton
About Karen Jakobsen Art & Design Books
Karen Jakobsen Art & Design Books specialises in Modern British Art and 20th century design books, and is based in Dorset. We are always interested in buying books, particularly those related to art, design, photography and architecture. Please contact us on 01258 471 249 or info@karenjakobsen.co.ukKaren Jakobsen is a Member of the PBFA
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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