worcester china (5 risultati)

48 pp, numerous photo illustrations & sketches within the pagination. Original printed limp card wraps, red lettering, sewn. 18 cm x 8.5 cm. Wraps slightly soiled with some random marks, minor chipping to spine and wrap edges, faint marginal age browning to text.

Worcester: Printed by Baylis, Lewis, [c.1904 - the latest date mentioned within is 1903]. Tall 8vo, sewn, 48 pages, stiff card covers. Some light chipping to the base of the spine, moderate foxing of the covers, a nice copy otherwise. Many illustrations of the various departments, and of the marks used to identify the china.

Thick 4to. 9.5 x 12.25 in. [20], 626 pp. Illustrated title in brown & black, with over 900 illustrations, plates, some folding diagrams. White cloth, embossed lettering front cover, gilt & red lettering on spine, w/ d.j. (price-clipped, old tape repair 1 corner), NF/VG copy. First edition of this comprehensive and authoritative record of the vessels which for centuries provided practically the sole means of communication and transportation along the waterways of China. Worcester (1890-1969) served as a River Inspector for the Chinese Maritime Customs during the first decades of the 20th century, and spent 30 years wandering up and down the coast and rivers of China, surveying, marking, and opening the Yangtze to steam navigation, and during the 1930s carried out field research, culminating in a three-year internment in a Japanese prison camp during World War II.

20 pp. A beautifully prepared and printed description of a visit to the mills of the Royal Worcester Works. Printed With lovely colored borders and 8 magnificent color plates of fine specimens of china as made by the "Works". A beautiful catalogue.

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