Printed by R. & R. Clark, Limited, Edinburgh.
Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling of English words were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
The spelling and accent marks of non-English words have not been changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
Although the “List of Plates in Colour” on page [xi] is in numerical sequence, the images themselves are not in sequence in the original book; both sequences have been kept in this eBook.
The descriptions of some plates include illustrations of the marks found on them, followed by the illustrations of the porcelain. In the Plain Text version of this eBook, such plates are represented by two “Illustration” tags, and the very first “Illustration” tag represents the book’s cover.
In the original book, chapter headings occur twice: once as a hemi-title and once just above the text of the chapter. In this eBook, the second occurrences have been removed.