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Joseph Marryat — Collections Towards a History of Pottery and Porcelain (1st ed.)

1850 · Book · Public Domain

Marryat's pioneering first edition, the book that founded ceramic history as a subject of English scholarship. Drawing on his own celebrated collection, he set out the marks, materials, and makers of European and Oriental wares in a form later writers would refine for decades.

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