Antique Pottery, Porcelain & Fine China - 187 Rare Old Books On USB - Ceramic Art Collector's Guides Makers Marks Potteries Symbols Monogram

THE ANTIQUE POTTERY, PORCELAIN & CHINA COLLECTION

AN ABSOLUTE MUST FOR ANYONE WITH AN INTEREST IN ANTIQUE POTTERY, PORCELAIN & CHINA!

A truly unique and wonderful collection of over 180 rare, out-of-print books, guides and catalogues compiled together for the first time on one USB flash drive covering all aspects of ANTIQUE POTTERY, PORCELAIN & CHINA.

Discover the history and origins of ceramic art, pottery and porcelain – from the ancient Egyptian craftsmen to the 18th / 19th century potteries of Staffordshire, England. Learn to identify antique works of art from around the world through their markings, monograms, design and style. Read about Italian majolica, Dutch pottery, French porcelain, old English earthenware, Byzantine ceramic art, royal Copenhagen porcelain, Dresden china, British pottery and porcelain, the Staffordshire potteries, faience antiques, vintage Wedgwood, Spanish terra cottas, German stoneware, and much much more!

Containing numerous guides, handbooks and manuals on identifying and collecting these wonderful antiques, this really is the most comprehensive collection of its kind available anywhere online - the full list of titles speaks for itself!

Some of the books contained within this collection are extremely hard-to-find and will provide a valuable library of reference material for any antiques collector or enthusiast.

This superb compilation of 187 vintage books on USB flash drive provides literally 1,000’s of pages of great content and fabulous photos / illustrations for the reader. All of the books have been scanned in high quality and preserved forever in pdf format - easy to read on your laptop or computer, or transfer to tablet, smartphone, kindle or e-reader. You can also print entire books or select pages. Most of the books are written in English with additional works in French and German.


The Full List of Titles Included is as Follows:


A book of porcelain, fine examples in the Victoria and Albert museum by B. Rackham (1910)

A catalogue of a collection of plaques, medallions, vases, figures, etc., in coloured jasper and basalte, produced by Josiah Wedgwood, F.R .S., at Etruria, in the county of Stafford, England, 1760-1795 (1912)

A chronograph of the Bow, Chelsea, & Derby porcelain manufactories - showing their various marks by W. F. Tiffin (1887)

A descriptive catalogue of the maiolica, Hispano-Moresco, Persian, Damascus, and Rhodian wares in the South Kensington Museum - with historical notes, marks, & monograms (1873)

A general history of porcelain Vol. 1 by W. Burton (1921)

A general history of porcelain Vol. 2 by W. Burton (1921)

A guide through the Royal Porcelain Works (ca. 1895)

A guide through the Royal Porcelain Works, Worcester, and an epitome of the history of pottery and porcelain with the marks on Worcester porcelain (1878)

A guide to the knowledge of pottery, porcelain, and other objects of vertu by H. G. Bohn (1857)

A history and description of English earthenware and stoneware (to the beginning of the 19th century) by W. Burton (1904)

A history and description of French porcelain by E. S. Auscher (1905)

A history and description of Italian majolica by M. L. Solon (1907)

A history and description of the old French faïence - with an account of the revival of faïence painting in France by L. M. Solon (1903)

A manual of marks on pottery and porcelain - a dictionary of easy reference by W. H. Hooper (1886)

A manual of pottery and porcelain for American collectors by J. H. Treadwell (1872)

A plated article. With an introductory account of the historical Spode-Copeland China Works to which it refers by C. Dickens (1912)

A pottery primer by W. P. Jervis (c1911)

A study of north Appalachian Indian pottery by C. Wren (1914)

A study of the bronze age pottery of Great Britain & Ireland Vol. 1 by J. Abercromby (1912)

A study of the bronze age pottery of Great Britain & Ireland Vol. 2 by J. Abercromby (1912)

Aboriginal pottery of the Eastern United States by W. H. Holmes (1903)

An introduction to the study of terra sigillata treated from a chronological standpoint by F. Oswald (1920)

Ancient pottery from the ancient pagan tombs and Christian cemeteries in the islands of Malta by A. Caruana (1899)

Anglo-American pottery; old English china with American views; a manual for collectors by E. A. Barber (1901)

Antiques and curios in our homes by G. M. Vallois (1923)

Artificial soft paste porcelain - France, Italy, Spain and England by E. A. Barber (1907)

Auguste Rodin, céramiste par R. Marx (1907)

Black glaze pottery from Rhitsona in Boeotia by P. N. Ure (1913)

Blue dash chargers and other early English tin enamel circular dishes by E. A. Downman (1919)

Bow, Chelsea, and Derby porcelain by W. Bemrose (1898)

Byzantine ceramic art. Notes on examples of Byzantine pottery recently found at Constantinople by H. Wallis (1907)

Catalog of cameos, intaglios, medals, bas-reliefs, busts and small statues by J. Wedgwood (1787)

Catalogue of a collection of pottery and porcelain illustrating popular British history (1899)

Catalogue of Arretine pottery by G. H. Chase (1916)

Catalogue of Mexican maiolica belonging to Mrs. Robert W. De Forest, exhibited by the Hispanic Society of America (1911)

Catalogue of specimens in the Museum of Practical Geology, illustrative of the composition and manufacture of British pottery and porcelain (1876)

Catalogue of the collection of English pottery in the Department of British and Mediæval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum (1903)

Catalogue of the Herbert Allen collection of English porcelain by B. Rackham (1922)

Catalogue of the Le Blond collection of Corean pottery by B. Rackham (1918)

Ceramica portugueza - J. Quieroz (1907)

Chats on old earthenware by A. Hayden (1909)

Chats on royal Copenhagen porcelain by A. Hayden (1918)

Chelsea and Chelsea-Derby china by E. Mew (1909)

Chelsea porcelain by W. King (1922)

China and pottery marks by Gilman Collamore & Co. (1920)

Collecting old lustre ware by W. Bosanko (1916)

Collections towards a history of pottery and porcelain, in the 15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, with a description of the manufacture, a glossary, and a list of monograms by J. Marryat (1850)

Comment reconnaître les porcelaines et les faïences d'après leurs marques et leurs caractères par E. S. Auscher (1914)

Contributions towards the history of early English porcelain by J. E. Nightingale (1881)

De la poterie gauloise; étude sur la collection Charvet par H. Du Cleuziou (1872)

Designs on prehistoric Hopi pottery by J. W. Fewkes (1919)

Deutsch Tanagra - Porzellan-Figuren des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts Vol. 1 von G. Hirth (1898)

Deutsch Tanagra - Porzellan-Figuren des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts Vol. 2 von G. Hirth (1898)

Dictionnaire des marques et monogrammes des faiences, poteries, grès, terre de pipe, terre cuite, porcelaines, etc. anciennes et modernes par Ris-Paquot (1879)

Die deutschen Fayencen des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts von O. Riesebieter (1921)

Die Grossherzogliche Majolika Manufaktur in Karlsruhe von N. Moufang (1920)

Die verzierten Terra Sigillata-Gefässe von Cannstatt und Königen-Grinario von R. Knorr (1905)

Dresden china by E. Mew (1909)

Dutch Pottery & Porcelain by W. Knowles (1913)

Early American folk pottery, including the history of Bennington pottery by A. Pitkin (1918)

Egyptian ceramic art - the MacGregor collection ; a contribution towards the history of Egyptian pottery by H. Wallis (1898)

Egyptian ceramic art - typical examples of the art of the Egyptian potter by H. Wallis (1900)

English porcelain - a handbook to the china made in England during the eighteenth century as illustrated by specimens in the national collections by A. H. Church (1894)

English porcelain of the eighteenth century by A. H. Church (1911)

English pottery and porcelain - a handbook for the collector, giving the characteristics of the chief wares produced from the 16th to the 19th century by E. A. Downman (1904)

English porcelain of the eighteenth century by A. H. Church (1911)

English pottery and porcelain - a handbook for the collector, giving the characteristics of the chief wares produced from the 16th to the 19th century by E. A. Downman (1904)

English pottery, its development from early times to the end of the eighteenth century by B. Rackham (1922)

Exhibition of early English earthenware by Burlington Fine Arts Club (1914)

French pottery and porcelain by H. Frantz (1906)

Führer für sammler von Porzellan und Fayence, Steinzeug, Steingut usw. von J. Grasse (1919)

Graesse-Jaennicke, guide de l'amateur de porcelaines et de faïences von J. Grasse (1909)

Guide de l'amateur de porcelaines et de poteries, ou, Collection complète des marques de fabriques de porcelaines et de poteries de l'Europe et de l'Asie par J. Grasse (1875)

Handbook of Marks And Monograms on Pottery & Porcelain by W. Chaffers (1901)

Handbook of Marks on Pottery & Porcelain by W. Burton (1919)

Handbook of pottery and porcelain, or history of those arts from the earliest period by H. M. Westropp (1880)

Handbook to the collection of British pottery and porcelain, in the Museum of Practical Geology (1893)

Hard paste porcelain by E. A. Barber (1910)

Hispano-Moresque pottery in the collection of the Hispanic Society of America (1915)

Hispano-Moresque ware of the XV. century a contribution to its history and chronology based upon armorial specimens by A. Van de Put (1904)

Histoire de la céramique - étude descriptive et raisonnée des poteries de tous les temps et de tous les peuples par A. Jacquemart (1873)

Histoire de la céramique grecque par O. Rayet (1888)

Histoire de la faience de Rouen par A. Pottier (1870)

Histoire des faïence patriotiques sous la révolution par Champfleury (1875)

Histoire des faiences hispano-moresques a reflets métalliques par C. Davillier (1861)

Histoire des manufactures françaises de porcelaine par X. Chavagnac (1906)

History of ancient pottery - Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Vol. 1 by H. B. Walters (1905)

History of ancient pottery - Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Vol. 2 by H. B. Walters (1905)

History of ancient pottery Vol. 1 by S. Birch (1858)

History of ancient pottery Vol. 2 by S. Birch (1858)

History of ancient pottery, Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman by S. Birch (1873)

History of the ceramic art. A descriptive and philosophical study of the pottery of all ages and all nations by A. Jacquemart (1877)

History of the Staffordshire potteries; and the rise and progress of the manufacture of pottery and porcelain; with references to genuine specimens, and notices of eminent potters by S. Shaw (1900)

How to apply royal Worcester, matt, bronze, La Croix and Dresden colors to china by A. H. Osgood (1891)

How to collect continental china by C. Wylde (1907)

Italian ceramic art - The maiolica pavement tiles of the fifteenth century by H. Wallis (1902)

Josiah Wedgwood and his pottery by W. Burton (1922)

Josiah Wedgwood, master-potter by A. H. Church (1903)

La céramique au pays de Liège - étude rétrospective par F. Pholien (1906)

La céramique italienne au XVe siècle par E. Molinier (1888)

La céramique italienne; marques et monogrammes par F. de Mely (1884)

La manufacture de porcelaine de Sèvres - histoire, organisation, ateliers, musée céramique, répertoire des marques et monogrammes d'artistes par G. Lechevallier-Chevignard (1908)

Lead glazed pottery. Part first (common clays) plain glazed, sgraffito and slip-decorated wares by E. A. Barber (1907)

Leadless decorative tiles, faience, and mosaic by W. J. Furnival (1904)

Lenox-china by Lenox Inc. (1922)

Les anciennes faiences de Bruxelles - histoire, fabrication, produits par G. Dansaert (1922)

Les faïences anciennes et modernes; leurs marques et décors par A. A. Mareschal (1874)

Les merveilles de la céramique Vol. 2 par A. Jacquemart (1868)

Les merveilles de la céramique Vol. 3 par A. Jacquemart (1868)

Les potiers de terre italiens à Lyon au seizième siècle par N. Rondot (1892)

Little romances of china by Onondaga Pottery Company (c1919)

Maiolica by C. D. E. Fortnum (1896)

Majolica and fayence - Italian, Sicilian, Majorcan, Hispano-Moresque and Persian by A. Beckwith (1877)

Majolica by Griffin, Smith & Hill (1880)

Majolika by O. van Falke (1907)

Manuel de l'amateur de porcelaines, manufactures françaises, suivi du Repertoire, alphabétique et systématique de toutes les marques connues par C. de Grollier (1922)

Marken und Monogramme auf Fayence, Porzellan, Steinzeug und sonstigen keramischen Erzeugnissen von F. Jaennicke (1878)

Marks and monograms on European and Oriental pottery and porcelain with historical notices of each manufactory by W. Chaffers (1891)

Marks and monograms on pottery and porcelain, of the Renaissance and modern periods by W. Chaffers (1872)

Meissner porzellan; seine geschichte und künstlerische Entwicklung von W. Doenges (1907)

Memorials of Wedgwood - a selection from his fine art works in plaques, medallions, figures, and other ornamental objects by E. Meteyard (1874)

Nineteenth-century English ceramic art by J. Blacker (1912)

Oak-leaf jars; a fifteenth century Italian ware showing Moresco influence by H. Wallis (1903)

Old Bow china by E. Mew (1909)

Old Dutch pottery and tiles by E. Neurdenburg (1923)

Old Wedgwood - the decorative or artistic ceramic work, in colour and relief, invented and produced by Josiah Wedgwood, F.R.S. at Etruria, in Staffordshire, 1760-1794 by F. Rathbone (1898)

Oriental ceramic art by W. Walters (1899)

Pictures of early New York on dark blue Staffordshire pottery by R. T. Haines Halsey (1899)

Porcelain by E. Dillon (1904)

Porcelain, oriental, continental and British, a book of handy reference for collectors by R. Hobson (1906)

Porcelains from the Robineau Pottery by A. A. Robineau (1906)

Porzellan, der europäischen Fabriken des 18. Jahrhunderts von L. Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1912)

Pottery. A history of the pottery industry and its evolution as applied to sanitation by Thomas Maddock's Sons (1910)

Pottery and porcelain - a guide to collectors by F. Litchfield (1900)

Pottery and porcelain of all times and nations; with tables of factory and artists' marks for the use of collectors by W. Prime (1878)

Pottery and porcelain of the United States - an historical review of American ceramic art from the earliest times to the present day by E. A. Barber (1893)

Pottery and porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 by C. Elliott (1878)

Pottery from certain caves in eastern Santo Domingo, West Indies by T. Booy (1915)

Pottery of Costa Rica and Nicaragua by S. K. Lothrop (1921)

Pottery of the Near East by G. C. Pier (1909)

Pottery types and their sequence in El Salvador by S. K. Lothrope (1921)

Rookwood, an American art by Rockwood Pottery (1904)

Rough notes on pottery by W. P. Jervis (1896)

Royal Copenhagen porcelain - its history and development from the eighteenth century to the present day by A. Hayden (1911)

Royal Sèvres china by E. Mew (1909)

Rozane ware by Roseville Pottery Co. (1905)

Salt glazed stoneware - Germany, Flanders, England and the United States by E. A. Barber (1907)

Sigillata wares in the Near East a list of potters' stamps Vol. 1 by J. H. Iliffe (1900)

Sigillata wares in the Near East a list of potters' stamps Vol. 2 by J. H. Iliffe (1900)

Spanish maiolica in the collection of the Hispanic Society of America by E. A. Barber (1915)

Spanish porcelains and terra cottas in the collection of the Hispanic Society of America by E. A. Barber (1915)

Spode and his successors by A. Hayden (1912)

Staffordshire pottery and its history by J. C. Wedgwood (1913)

Storia della ceramica greca - P. Ducati (1922)

The ABC of collecting old continental pottery by J. F. Blacker (1913)

The ABC of collecting old English china, giving short history of the English factories, and showing how to apply tests for unmarked china before 1800 by J. F. Blacker (1908)

The ABC of collecting old English pottery by J. F. Blacker (1914)

The ABC of English salt-glaze stoneware from Dwight to Doulton by J. F. Blacker (1922)

The art of the old English potter by L. M. Solon (1886)

The art of the precursors - a study in the history of early Italian maiolica with illustrations by H. Wallis (1901)

The blue-china book by A. W. Camehl (1916)

The ceramic art - a compendium of the history and manufacture of pottery and porcelain by J. J. Young (1878)

The ceramic art of Great Britain from pre-historic times down to the present day Vol. 1 by L. Jewitt (1878)

The ceramic art of Great Britain from pre-historic times down to the present day Vol. 2 by L. Jewitt (1878)

The ceramics of Swansea and Nantgarw by W. Turner (1897)

The china collector; a guide to the porcelain of the English factories by H. Lewer (1916)

The china collector's pocket companion by B. Palliser (1874)

The China Hunters Club by A. T. Slosson (1878)

The color blue in pottery and porcelain by M. Ripley (1902)

The Dresden gallery by S. Litchfield (1876)

The Earle collection of early Staffordshire pottery - illustrating over seven hundred different pieces by C. Earle (1915)

The earthenware collector by G. W. Rhead (1920)

The life of Josiah Wedgwood, from his private correspondence and family papers ... with an introductory sketch of the art of pottery in England by E. Meteyard (1865)

The Loeb Collection of Arretine pottery, catalogued, with introduction and descriptive notes by G. H. Chase (1908)

The maiolica of Mexico by E. A. Barber (1908)

The old china book, including Staffordshire, Wedgwood, lustre, and other English pottery and porcelain by N. Moore (1903)

The pottery and porcelain of the United States; an historical review of American ceramic art from the earliest times to the present day by E. Barber (1893)

The pottery found at Silchester by T. May (1916)

The Staffordshire potter by H. Owen (1901)

The Wedgwood handbook - a manual for collectors, treating of the marks, monograms, and other tests of the old period of manufacture by E. Meteyard (1875)

The Wedgwoods being a life of Josiah Wedgwood; with notices of his works and their productions ... and a history of the early potteries of Staffordshire by L. Jewitt (1865)

Tin enamelled pottery - maiolica, delft, and other stanniferous faience by E. A. Barber (1907)

Transfer printing on enamels, porcelain and pottery - its origin and development in the United Kingdom by W. Turner (1907)

Tulip ware of the Pennsylvania-German potters - an historical sketch of the art of slip-decoration in the United States by E. A. Barber (1903)

Wedgwood and his imitators by N. H. Moore (1909)

XVII plates by Nicola Fontana da Urbino at the Correr Museum, Venice; a study in early XVIth cent. maiolica with illustrations by H. Wallis (1905)

Yorkshire potteries, pots and potters by O. Grabham (1916)



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