Antique Ceramic Collecting; Photographically-Illustrated. A ...

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Antique Ceramic Collecting; Photographically-Illustrated. A Catalogue of Porcelain & Pottery, Oriental, European, & English, The Property of The Rev. R. Waldo Sibthorp, of Nottingham. With Photographic Illustrations, dedicated and inscribed family presentation copy, first and only edition, Nottingham: [Privately printed by] T. Forman and Sons, 1874, black-ruled title-page, complete: 55pp (items 1-740), with contemporary ink manuscript additions to the lower margin and the whole verso of the last leaf (items 741-761), the collection illustrated by 60 mounted albumen prints as called for, photographed by John Clayson of Nottingham, their outline occasionally off-setting, some light marginal marks in places, some leaves' edges very lightly nibbled, verso inner-gutters of leaves reinforced with archive tape, but discreet, original publisher's clott gilt, worn, top of spine with split section and chip, but without major loss, bowed and bumped, 8vo 

Provenance: Henry A. M. Waldo Sibthorp. A memento of his affectionate uncle, Richard Waldo Sibthorpe, January, 1875; verso of ffep with contemporary manuscript presentation inscription.

Principally the collection of Richard Waldo Sibthorp (1792–1879), Church of England clergyman and Roman Catholic convert, but added to by various members of the Sibthorp family of Canwick Hall, Lincolnshire. On Richard's death the collection passed to his nephew Coningsby Charles Sibthorp (1846-1932) and later to be sold for charity in an anonymously at Christie's on 2nd March 1877.