Sales catalogue 529: Maggs Bros

Date:
1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/84
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 529: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Postage: Original MS. on the Establishment of ‘‘ Penny Postage ’’—-cont. Disadvantages of the Stamped Papers and Covers. Advantages ot having separate Stamps. The Administration of the System. Primary Distribution, Exclusion of Forgeries. Secondary Distribution. Manufacture of the Stamps. Manufacture of the Paper. Process of Stamping. Nature of the Device and Security from Forgery. Description of Specimens. The General Routine of the Manufacture. Iixpense of the Stamps. Prevention of a Second Use of the Stamp. EKtc., etc. 307 POTTERY AND PORCELAIN. Hobson (R. L.) anc Morse (Edward S.). Chinese, Corean and Japanese Potteries. Descriptive Catalogue of Loan Exhibition of Selected Examples. Lllustrations tn colour and half-tone. Ato, original boards. New York, Privately Printed, Japan Society, 1914. £3 10s 308 — Taft Collection. A Catalogue of Chinese Porcelain collected by Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Taft, Cincinnati, Ohio. Compiled and described by John Getz. 32 plates. Ato, original boards. New York, Privately Printed, 1904. £7 10s 1 of 100 copies printed for private circulation. 309 ———— Wheatley (Henry B.). A Handbook of Art Industries in Pottery and the Precious Metals. Coloured frontispiece and 220 wood-engravings. Post 8vo, Aalf morocco gilt, uncut, ¢. e. g. London, 1886. 18s 310 POWLETT (Rev. Charles). A Father’s Reasons for being a Christian. Dedicated, with permission, to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent. Royal 8vo, iz a magnificent specimen of binding by Mackenzie, dark biue morocco, sides elaborately decorated with gold and blind tooling, wide inside dentelles, watered silk end and fly leaves, gilt gauffred edges, and the name of the binder in gold letters on the front silk fly leaf. “ Bound by J. Mackenzie, 17 Sherrard St., Golden Sqr.”’ LOnd On, T812. £10 10s
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