| National Art Library (Victoria & Albert Museum): | 96.N.2 |
| British Library: | L.R.252.d.9 |
| National Art Library (Victoria & Albert Museum): | 96.N.2 |
| British Library: | L.R.252.d.9 |
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[within a 26pt. 6-rule border] THE THREE BOOKS OF THE POTTER'S ART which treat not only of the practice but also briefly of all the secrets of this art, a matter which until to-day has always been kept concealed. By CAVALIERE CIPRIANO PICCOLPASSO of Castel Durante (1524 – 1579) In the original Italian With Translation and an Introduction By BERNARD RACKHAM, F.S.A. Keeper of the Department of Ceramics Victoria and Albert Museum And ALBERT VAN DE PUT Keeper of the Library Victoria and Albert Museum LONDON Published under the Authority of the Board of Education by THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM 1934
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LI TRE LIBRI DELL' ARTE DEL VASAIO THE THREE BOOKS OF THE POTTER'S ART
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[within 26pt. 6-rule border, left-justified] LI TRE LIBRI DELL' ARTE DEL VASAIO NEI QUAI SI TRATTA NON SOLO LA PRATICA MA BREVE- MENTE TUTTI GLI SECRETI DI ESSA COSA CHE PER SINO ALDI D'OGGI È STATA SEMPRE TENUTA ASCOSTA DEL CAVALIERE CIPRIANO PICCOLPASSO DURANTINO
[A]3v
At foot, Copyright statement and Printer's imprint; Also at head the Publisher's Imprint for Victoria and Albert Museum and for the Stationery Office.
[A]4r
b1r
Foreword by Eric MacLagan, January 1934, with thanks and acknowledgements.
b5r
Correction to p.xv, tipped onto p.xv: In line 2 delete "present".
b7
[recto and verso, pp.xxi-xxii] Bibliography
B1r
As on [A]2r, repeated again.
G5r
Errata at foot of page.
S2r
[recto after plate 80] 750 COPIES OF THIS BOOK HAVE BEEN PRINTED OF WHICH 500 COPIES ARE FOR SALE IN ENGLAND AND 250 COPIES FOR SALE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA THE TEXT HAS BEEN PRINTED AND THE BOOK BOUND AT THE CURWEN PRESS PLAISTOW THE COLLOTYPE PLATES HAVE BEEN PRINTED BY WATERLOW AND SONS LTD. LONDON
S3r
Addendum: additional collotype plate, un-numbered, referred to by ms note on p.xix of N.A.L. copy.
[A]4 b8 B-E8 F4 G6 H-R4 S3; N.B. signature letters in H-S appear ¾" up from the foot of the page, and must be carefully distinguished from capital letters of similar size close to bottom left corner of the collotype; typically f1 and f2 of a section are signed.
[i-viii] ix-xix [xx] xxi-xxii [xxiii-xxiv] 1-5 [6] 1-27 [28] 29-55 [56] 57-73 [74] 75-83 [84] 85 [86]; Sections H onwards are un-paged.
2o: 14⅜" × 10⅜", trimmed, white wove, no mark, red and gold artificial head- and tail-bands; 28pt. Walbaum headings; 14pt. Baskerville text; 80 collotype illustrations, starting from H1r; plate 80 is S1r.; casing, maroon buckram, grey wove endleaves with linen joints made onto white wove; 2¼" black leather spine label gold-blocked: ‘[double fillet] PICCOLPASSO [short rule] THE POTTER'S ART [double fillet] [and at foot] 1934’.
Missing from Curwen Press library, so not in 1963 handlist; missing also in B.L. for some years; the N.A.L. copy is stamped 24/Feb/1934.
Douglas Ball and Pat Gilmour called my attention to Simon 1956 p.94; this is one of very few Curwen books in folio format; for use of Walbaum alongside Baskerville, see Simon 1956 p.46; the typesizes given above for the Walbaum headings and Baskerville text were not measured but calculated.
Text in Italian + English translation.
14/Feb/1934
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Robin Phillips, 24/Jun/2011