The Later Ceramic Wares of China: Being the Blue and White, Famille Verte, Famille Rose, Monochromes, etc., of the K ang Hsi, Yung Ch - Robert Lockhart Hobson 1925 - Ernest Benn, London - First Edition. Deluxe Issue. Number 28 of 250 signed copies A fine copy of the limited edition which was signed by Hobson and contains five additional colour plates (plates A to E), in the publisher’s deluxe full glazed pigskin binding.

Hobson’s exhaustive and scholarly work, is a natural sequel to
Wares of the Ming Dynasty, carrying on the history of Chinese pottery and porcelain and completing the trilogy that began with Early Ceramic Wares of China. Chapters include general history, detailed studies of various periods, European influences on Chinese porcelain, as well as explanations of shapes, designs, and marks.

Profusely illustrated with twenty four full page colour plates, eight folding colour plates, and fifty full page monochrome plates. There are also a small number of in-text emblems, symbols, and the final chapter on potter’s marks provides five pages of examples.
  Robert Lockhart Hobson [1873-1941] was one of the first British authorities on the ceramics of the Far East, and became responsible for the Far Eastern ceramics at the British Museum in 1921. His contribution to Qing ceramics scholarship was of great importance and included his entries in the catalogue of the great George Eumorfopoulos collection published in 1927. He was highly influential through his writing in the elevation of Chinese ceramics from craft works to the status of objects of fine art.

Details of Edition: Benn published a limited number of copies which were signed by the author and contain five plates in colour (Plates A to E) that do not appear in the ordinary edition. These limited copies consist of two editions - 25 numbered copies printed on Japanese Vellum, bound in full Vellum; 250 numbered copies printed on hand-made paper, bound in full brown pigskin.

Quarto (binding size 30x25cm), pp. [4] xxix [1] 156 [2] [70 sheets of plates each with descriptive tissue guard] [2].

lxxvi 66-1 = 65

ii-xxvi a-e xxvii
Pagination of illustrations.
Photographic Colour Plates:-
22 Full Page - Frontispiece + (at rear of volume after pp.156) ii, iii, iv, vi, vii, ix, xi, xii, xiii, xv, xvii, xxi-xxvi, A-D.
8 Folding - v, viii, x, xvi, xviii, xix, xx, E.
2 Full Page on a folding double page - xiv+xiva.
Photographic Monochrome
50 Full Page - xxvii-lxxvi.
Black and White Woodblock Print
5 Full page - Potters Marks - 145-149
In-text black and white engravings
8 Buddhist emblems - 127.
1 ‘ying yang’ between the ‘pa kua’ - 131.
13 symbols - 136-7.
  In publisher s full brown glazed pigskin, spine smooth and lettered in gilt, front panel with Chinese symbol blocked in gilt, top edge gilt, rest of text edges untrimmed.   Condition: Fine (unopened with bolts uncut) in fine biding but for some light wear to spine ends and rear panel, and cloth reinforcement to front inner hinge.   Ref: 111266   Price: HK$ 18,000