Oriental Ceramic Art: Collection of W.T. Walters Text Edition SW Bushell 1899 HC

by S. W. Bushell, M.D

$75 · Offered by eBay · No longer available

• Boards show soiling, heavy scuffing to spine and back board • Spine is cocked and shaken • Moderate bumps and chipping to head, toe, and corners, with some loss at head • Partial separation to back hinge (confined to paper on board, hinge itself intact) • Age‑related toning to pages; interior otherwise clean • Deckled fore and bottom edges with chipping and scuffing; top edge gilt with wear • Bookstore label on rear pastedown: Paragon Book Gallery • Binding remains generally sound despite exterior wear • Solid reference copy of a foundational Bushell text Ships securely in cardboard box with packing materials A century‑old cornerstone of ceramic scholarship, worn at the edges but rich at the core. A survivor of the great age of American connoisseurship, this 1899 text volume stands as the quiet companion to one of the most ambitious ceramic surveys ever attempted. S. W. Bushell’s voice moves through these pages with the calm authority of a scholar who lived among the objects he described, tracing the lineage of glazes, kilns, dynasties, and the long arc of Chinese ceramic imagination. Time has left its marks on the boards—scuffing, bumps, the gentle fatigue of a century’s handling—but the interior remains steady, its pages carrying the same clarity of thought that guided collectors, curators, and early students of Asian art. This is a working artifact: a reference, a witness, and a piece of the intellectual scaffolding that shaped Western understanding of Oriental ceramics

• Publisher: D. Appleton and Company
• Year: 1899
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fair

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.