(Companion volume to "Chats on English China.") By ARTHUR HAYDEN With coloured Frontispiece and 80 Full-page Illustrations of specimens of Earthenware, Lists of Prices, Glossary, Bibliography, and Reproductions of 200 Marks. Cloth, 6s. net. "Complementary to the useful companion volume, in this 'Chats' Series, on English China which Mr. Hayden issued five years ago."—Times. "Is a compendious account of our native English faÏence, abundantly illustrated and accurately written."—Guardian. "A thoroughly trustworthy working handbook."—Truth. "It is a mine of knowledge, gathered from all quarters, and the outcome of personal experience and research, and it is written with no little charm of style."—Lady's Pictorial. "Mr. Hayden knows and writes exactly what is needed to help the amateur to become an intelligent collector, while his painstaking care in verifying facts renders his work a stable book of reference."—Connoisseur. "The volume has been written as a companion to Mr. Hayden's 'Chats on English China' in the same series, and those who recall the admirable character of that book will find this to be in no way inferior."—Nation. "The illustrations are profuse and excellent, and the author and the publishers must be commended for offering us so many reproductions of typical specimens that have not appeared in any previous handbook. The illustrations alone are worth the cost of the book."—Manchester Guardian. "Mr. Hayden's book is filled to overflowing with beautiful and most instructive and helpful illustrations, and altogether it is one that will give immense pleasure to collectors, and much information to the admiring but ignorant."—Liverpool Courier. London: T. FISHER UNWIN, Ltd., 1, Adelphi Terrace. Transcriber's Note:
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