CERVANTES, Enrique A. Loza Blanca y Azulejo de Puebla. Mexico, [privately printed], 1939.
4to. Two volumes. Original wrappers, labels printed in blue and black on front covers, pp. xi, 303, [5]; 331, [5], highly illustrated with cut-out and mounted tinted, black-and-white, and colour printed illustrations after photographs; minimal rubbing to edges; a very good set in the original state.
Number 751 of a print run of 2000. An early standard work on White Stoneware and Tiles of Puebla, meticulously documenting European-influenced pottery of Puebla from the 16th to the 20th century. Puebla was founded in 1531 and the most prolific pottery of the Spanish Empire. During the Golden Age much of the ceramic items in use in mainland Spain were actually imports from Mexico.
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