“Italian bronzes, African charms, Chinese and Japanese enamels,
bells, mortars, Indian idols, dials, candlesticks, and snuff boxes,
all come in for their share of attention, and the reader who has
mastered Mr. Burgess’s pages can face his rival in the auction-room
or the dealer in his shop with little fear of suffering by the
transaction.”
_The Nation._
=Chats on Household Curios.= By FRED W. BURGESS. With 94 Illustrations.
Cloth, 9s. net.
“Mr. Burgess gives much information about such attractive antiques
as old glass and enamels, old leather work, old clocks and watches,
old pipes, old seals, musical instruments, and even old samplers
and children’s toys. The book is, in short, an excellent and
comprehensive guide for what one may call the general collector,
that is, the collector who does not confine himself to one class
of antique, but buys whatever he comes across in the curio line,
provided that it is interesting and at moderate price.”
_Aberdeen Free Press._
=Chats on Japanese Prints.= By ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE. With a coloured
frontispiece and 56 Illustrations.
Cloth, 9s. net.
“Mr. Ficke writes with the knowledge of the expert, and his history
of Japanese printing from very early times and his criticism of the
artists’ work are wonderfully interesting.”
_Tatler._
“This is one of the most delightful and notable members of an
attractive series.... A beginner who shall have mastered and made
thoroughly his own the beauty of line and the various subtlety and
boldness of linear composition displayed in these sixty and odd
photographs will have no mean foundation for further study.”
_Notes and Queries._
=Chats on Old Clocks.= By ARTHUR HAYDEN. With a frontispiece and 80
Illustrations. 2nd Ed.
Cloth, 9s. net.
“A practical handbook dealing with the examples of old clocks
likely to come under the observation of the collector. Charmingly
written and illustrated.”
_Outlook._
“One specially useful feature of the work is the prominence Mr.
Hayden has given to the makers of clocks, dealing not only with
those of London, but also those of the leading provincial towns.
The lists he gives of the latter are highly valuable, as they
are not to be found in any similar book. The volume is, as usual
with this series, profusely illustrated, and may be recommended
as a highly interesting and useful general guide to collectors of
clocks.”
_The Connoisseur._
=Chats on Old Silver.= By ARTHUR HAYDEN. With a frontispiece, 99
full-page Illustrations, and illustrated table of marks.
Cloth, 9s. net.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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