THE A B C OF XIX. CENTURY ENGLISH CERAMIC ART.
By J. F. Blacker. (Stanley Paul. 15s. net.) This volume, by the author of many handbooks of a similar kind on divers subjects, gives a very comprehensive survey not only of the earlier classes (if nineteenth-century pottery, but also of the later Victorian work which comes nearer our own time. The illustrations, of which there are many, are on The whole bad, both in choice and 'in reprodurtion : but, since the book has no great aesthetic value, in any case, the variety and quantity is Of -greater importance perhaps than the quality of the examples. During the period which is here treated, however, very little of true worth was accom- plished in the-art of pottery, in a restricted review,itmight be critically termed the period of " pottery with knobs on."
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