Author of “The Immoralists,”
“Love and the Lutist,” etc.
Messrs. Stanton & Co.
No. 2.
117–118 Greyfriars’ Square, E.C.,
January 30th, 1902.
Dear Madam:—
I have to thank you for your letter of yesterday with its suggestion for a book on Staffordshire Pottery.
The subject is outside my own knowledge, but I find there is no comprehensive work dealing with it, a small elementary booklet published in the Midlands some three years ago being the only volume catalogued.
In any case there can hardly be a large public for so special an interest, and it will probably be best, as you indicate, to issue a limited edition at a high price and appeal direct by prospectus to collectors. The success of the publication would be then largely dependent on the beauty of the illustrations and the general “get up” of the volume, for although I have no doubt your text will be excellent and accurate—it must be properly “dressed” to secure attention.