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
England
Collection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 3126761
Summary
Bibliographic description
xvi,334p. . ill.. . 8vo.. Not indigenous. Provenance: Twentieth-century book label of the Wayside Library, with its press-mark [i.e. the library of Norman Norris (1917-1991)]. Bequeathed to the National Trust by Norman Norris (1917-1991). Binding: Nineteenth-century full brown straight-grained morocco over boards; blind fillets to form a border; sewn on four raised bands; binding detached from backstrip and book block.
Makers and roles
George Richardson Porter (1792-1852), author Dionysius Lardner (1793-1859), editor