The Green Frog Service Tapa dura - 1995

London: Cacklegoose Press, 1997. 424 pages with 60 colour plates and 1350 black and white illustrations. Cloth in a slipcase 32.5x25cms. ISBN: 0952658402. Commissioned by Empress Catherine the Great [1773-4], the Green Frog Service was one of the finest dinner services designed by Josiah Wedgwood and is a unique pictorial record of 18th-century houses, gardens and landscapes of Britain.

Antique Collectors Club Ltd, 1998. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. #417 of 600 copies for genera sale. 25 copies were published in a special leatherbound edition NUMBERED I-XXV. 25 copies published for collaborators on the publication numbered A-Y. 350 for Subscribers. Forward by Sir Martin Wedgwood, Essay by Gaye Blake Roberts "The detailed catalogue and the plates represent every view, group them by country and identify the sources from which they are copied." This copy in gilt-embossed green cloth boards is excellent throughout with one timy white spot on gilt-embossed, green cloth boards. Interior pages are excellent throughout and green cloth slipcase shows little evidence of previous use. This is a very respectable copy. Will be carefully packaged and shipped with tracking and insurance..

London: Cacklegoose Press Ltd, 1995. Book. Near Fine. Original Green Cloth, Gilt. Limited Edition of 1000 Copies. 13" x 9 7/8". Copy no. 914 of the edition of 1000 copies, of which the first 25 are a special leather-bound edition, a further 25 were for collaborators on the publication, and 350 copies were for subscribers; with 600 numbered copies for general sale. 424 pages, over 350 large detailed illustrations, 60 colour plates and more than 1000 reference illustrations, presenting for the first time the entire service in colour and monochrome plates. The crowning achievement of the great English potter Josiah Wedgwood was a dinner and dessert service decorated with hand-painted views of England, Scotland and Wales, commissioned by Empress Catherine the Great of Russia. Known as the Green Frog Service, it provides one of the finest surviving pictorial records of 18th-century Britain. Commissioned and produced in 1773-4, the Service was destined for a 'palace' Catherine was building… Leer más