A Potters Handbook – Bernard Leach

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This now famous book was the first treatise to be written by a potter on the workshop traditions handed down by Koreans and Japanese from the greatest period of Chinese ceramics in the Sung dynasty. It deals with four types of pottery: Japanese raku, English slipware, stoneware and oriental porcelain. With its help, potters can learn how to adapt recipes for pigments and glazes, and designs of kilns, to local conditions. It gives a vivid workshop picture of the making of a kiln-load of pots from start to finish, and is eloquent on the position of the individual or artist-potter in an industrial age. It is a book that is primarily intended for practical craftsmen and students, but it also has a strong appeal for all lovers of ceramics and for everyone with an interest in cultural interchange between East and West.
Book Condition: Very, very Good, tight and clean with discreet inscription of prev owners name. Cover a light beige / brown “cloth”emboss with “sky blue”lettering. Spine tight and solid. Dust Wrapper Worn, price clipped and repaired with sticky tape on the inside of the DW from, but ……. now covered in a protective cellophane making it more pleasing on the eye. SEE OUR OWN picture for condition. Book is in very very good condition overall and DW acceptable. As a matter of interest there is a copy going without a dust wrapper for $1700+, so bearing this in mind our copy (see photo) is fairly priced.

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SKU: 707 Category: Title: A Potters Handbook
Author: Bernard Leach
Publisher: Farber and Farber - London
Year: 1969
Condition: Good
Format: Hardcover
Inventory No: 707

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This now famous book was the first treatise to be written by a potter on the workshop traditions handed down by Koreans and Japanese from the greatest period of Chinese ceramics in the Sung dynasty. It deals with four types of pottery: Japanese raku, English slipware, stoneware and oriental porcelain. With its help, potters can learn how to adapt recipes for pigments and glazes, and designs of kilns, to local conditions. It gives a vivid workshop picture of the making of a kiln-load of pots from start to finish, and is eloquent on the position of the individual or artist-potter in an industrial age. It is a book that is primarily intended for practical craftsmen and students, but it also has a strong appeal for all lovers of ceramics and for everyone with an interest in cultural interchange between East and West.
Book Condition: Very, very Good, tight and clean with discreet inscription of prev owners name. Cover a light beige / brown “cloth”emboss with “sky blue”lettering. Spine tight and solid. Dust Wrapper Worn, price clipped and repaired with sticky tape on the inside of the DW from, but ……. now covered in a protective cellophane making it more pleasing on the eye. SEE OUR OWN picture for condition. Book is in very very good condition overall and DW acceptable. As a matter of interest there is a copy going without a dust wrapper for $1700+, so bearing this in mind our copy (see photo) is fairly priced.

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Weight 45 kg
Dimensions 22.2 × 14 × 3 cm

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