A treatise on the origin, progressive improvement, and present state, of the manufacture of porcelain and glass.
George Richardson Porter (1792-1852)
Category
Books
Date
1832
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3122894
Summary
Bibliographic description
xiv,334, [2] p. : ill. ; 17 cm (8vo). Provenance: nineteenth-century crest bookplate, after 1831, with earl’s coronet: Lichfield [i.e. Thomas George Anson, 2nd Earl of Lichfield (1825-1892)]. Binding: nineteenth-century half calf, with marbled paper on boards; gilt on spine; five false bands; gilt lettered red and black spine labels. (Poor condirion; boards loose.)
Makers and roles
George Richardson Porter (1792-1852) Dionysius Lardner (1793-1859)