Description

Hardcover, large quarto bound in dark blue cloth and lettered in gold on spine, in publisher’s blue pictorial dust-jacket. 256 pages. Bibliography. Illustrated with black and white photographs and drawings and a suite of 16 full page color plates at rear. First edition, with no other printing listed. A new approach, utilizing the petrographic method [mineral and rock inclusions] to more accurately date and distinguish the centers of production for the Iranian porcelain trade in the 15th and 16th centuries. Small, neat previous owner’s nae on front free end-paper, else a clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. Priority and International orders will require additional postage.