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By: Professor Peter Doyle
ISBN: 9780747807667
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Illustrated with a wide range of postcards, this is a fascinating look into the response of the British people to the horrors of the war.
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By: Jan Dobrzynski
ISBN: 9780747808442
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"British Railway Tickets".
(Paperback)
By: Steven Goss
ISBN: 9780747806950
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Charts the development of tea and coffee cups, providing information on the methods of decoration, influential factories and designers. This book guides readers on how to identify the dates of particular patterns, as well as listing a number of museums and auction houses where these ornamental cups can be discovered.
(Paperback)
By: Steven Goss
ISBN: 9780747806349
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Ranging from the elegant to the quirky, teapots and coffee pots are very collectable, being decorative and easily displayed and occurring in many different shapes and patterns, and can be relatively inexpensive. This book charts their development over a period of 300 years, providing information on the materials used in their manufacture.
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By: Gillian Meredith
ISBN: 9780747806912
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Offers a typology of buckles detailing the types of buckles from different historical periods and listings of museums where they can be found. This book offers guidance for period costumes, and provides the collector or enthusiast with the information needed to continue or begin to learning about this object.
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By: Brian Salter
ISBN: 9780747808152
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A nostalgic look into the world of building toys a staple of children's toy boxes for generations.
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By: Alan Meredith
ISBN: 9780747804666
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2004
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Buttons have been made from almost every known material. Their study provides insight into fashion trends, the clothing industry and social history in general. This book introduces an array of these treasures from the past, to show the variety of materials and the intricate design and workmanship incorporated in the making of the button.
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By: Kenneth Beaulah
ISBN: 9780747805021
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book describes how nineteenth-century decorative encaustic tiles derived from medieval church tiles, how they were made, the designers and manufacturers.
(Paperback)
By: Joseph Bilby
ISBN: 9780306814594
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2005
Publisher: Hachette Books
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(Paperback)
By: Will Farmer
ISBN: 9780747807742
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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There are few pieces of pottery more recognisable than those designed by Clarice Cliff. Employed in The Potteries from the age of thirteen, Clarice was talented and resourceful, and in 1927 she was given her own studio at the Newport Pottery. Using colour illustrations, this title traces the story of Clarice Cliff and the pottery that she created.
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By: Eric G. Ayto
ISBN: 9780747802488
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This album traces the history of the clay pipe, looking at its myriad designs and helps to identify examples.'
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By: Leslie Kurke
ISBN: 9780691007366
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 1999
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Leslie Kurke analyzes the ideological functions of Greek coinage as one of a number of symbolic practices that arise for the first time in the archaic period.
(Hardback)
By: Werner Muensterberger
ISBN: 9780691633442
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Werner Muensterberger
ISBN: 9780691604282
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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From rare books, valuable sculpture and paintings, the relics of saints, and porcelain and other precious items, through stamps, textiles, military ribbons, and shells, to baseball cards, teddy bears, and mugs, an amazing variety of objects have engaged and even obsessed collectors through the ages. With this captivating book the psychoanalyst Wern
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By: Kaye Browning
ISBN: 9781543902563
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Hardback)
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1974
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Micah D James
ISBN: 9798350931150
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Paperback)
By: Micah D. James
ISBN: 9781667860282
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Hardback)
By: Peter Jones
ISBN: 9781098317553
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Paperback)
By: Pierre Fricke
ISBN: 9780747810803
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Renae Reno
ISBN: 9781667869148
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Paperback)
By: Hans van Lemmen
ISBN: 9780747806110
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book traces the history of delftware tiles, describes how they were made and explains the differences between Dutch and English delftware tiles.
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By: Donald C. Dickinson
ISBN: 9780313266751
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 1998
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Provides information on 205 notable American antiquarian bookdealers active from Colonial times to 1997.
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By: John Chidley
ISBN: 9780747803874
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2004
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book sets out to show that there are few pastimes as fascinating, enjoyable and rewarding for the enthusiast of modest means as collecting books.
