WALLIS, Henry. Italian Ceramic Art. Figure Design and other Forms of Ornamentation in XVth Century Italian Maiolica with illustrations by Henry Wallis.

WALLIS, Henry. Italian Ceramic Art. Figure Design and other Forms of Ornamentation in XVth Century Italian Maiolica with illustrations by Henry Wallis. London: Bernard Quaritch. 1905.

Small 4to. Original cream cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt; pp. xxxii, [2], 103, [2], 103 full-page lithographic illustrations, four double-page colour-lithographic plates; cloth a little darkened and with light bubbling to lower cover, endpapers spotted; internally clean and crisp.

First edition, number 26 of a total print-run of only 50 copies, on fine paper. Wallis was a British Pre-Raphaelite painter, writer and collector of ceramics. Quaritch published a number of his books in the same format; however this is the title with the smallest print-run.

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