Chats on Old China (Signed)

xxviii, 288pp. Blue cloth-covered boards; blue design and white titles on front and spine. Spine sun faded, bumped ends, cloth worn. Wear to covers. Binding a little loose. Blue stained top edge, all edges untrimmed. Signed, presentation copy with inscription 'D. Coral Thomson Esq with the author's compliments' on the front free endpaper and also with a bookmark (attached to the front pastedown with tape) which reads 'With compliments Arthur Hayden'. Some foxing to prelim pages. Colour frontispiece has 3cm closed tear. Otherwise internally neat, clean, and bright. No dust jacket. 8vo. Useful and reliable introduction to the subject with chapters covering Old Derby, Chelsea China, The Bow China Factory, Old Worcester, Plymouth and Bristol China; The Lowestoft Factory; Coalport; Spode and his Successors; NantGarw & Swansea; Minton; Old English Earthenware; Lustre Ware; Liverpool Ware & Wedgwood. Illustrated with both full page and in-text black and white photographs throughout.