The author of this volume, we are told by H. W. Lewer in the foreword is a practical potter and, moreover, an artist and art examiner in pottery to the board of education. With his help, therefore, it is hoped that the collector will be enabled to discriminate between well authenticated examples and worthless specimens and probably forgeries. “The book covers the whole story of British earthenwares from those of the Slip and Salt glazed period, now more and more sought after, to the less coveted but still interesting specimens of the early nineteenth century.... The illustrations include many rare examples from well-known collections.” (Author’s preface) Among the contents are: Early British, mediæval and sixteenth century wares; Slip wares; English Delft wares; Wedgwood; Contemporaries and followers of Wedgwood; Lustred wares; The makers of image toys and chimney ornaments; Glossary of terms; Bibliography; Index.
“The subject of Mr Woolliscroft Rhead’s work is so enormous that we can hardly complain of inadequate treatment, but it is less well written than Mr Young’s [‘The silver and Sheffield plate collector’] and less likely to be useful. His spelling and phraseology are also sometimes at fault. It is further extremely inconvenient that the plates are not numbered, which makes reference to them a complicated matter.”
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“Mr Rhead, as an artist and a potter, writes of a subject which he knows, and young collectors will find some useful hints in his pages.”
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RHEAD, LOUIS JOHN. Fisherman’s lures and game-fish food. il *$4 (7c) Scribner 799
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A book intended as a companion volume to the author’s “Trout stream insects,” and like that work illustrated with pictures in color painted from living specimens. The author states: “This book has a two-fold object. First: to multiply largely all species of game-fish for the people’s use by a new method and a logical system of ‘feeding’ that will more rapidly attain a better result in the conservation of American fresh-water game-fishes.... Second: to vastly improve present angling conditions by introducing a new and entirely superior style of fishing with artificial nature lures in place of the live bait that is now being employed in ever-increasing quantities.” (Preface) The illustrations include pictures of live creatures that fish eat and of artificial nature lures; also chart plans to show feeding places. The book is indexed.