Author: SHAW, Simeon.
Title: The Chemistry of the Several Natural and Artificial Heterogeneous Compounds, Used in Manufacturing Porcelain, Glass, and Pottery.
Description: London, printed for the author 1837. Stout octavo later quarter calf (maybe mid 20th century); xliv, 685pp, addenda leaf, portrait; bound with blank leaves at the end of each section. Repairs in the gutter of the title and two leaves of subscribers; the portrait foxed, minor flaws and a perfectly decent copy. ¶ From a notice seen in another copy of this we know that 250 copies were printed; it's quite rare. Fundamental in the progress of ceramics from a secretive art to a scientific industry, the list of subscribers gives some indication of the expectation that the industry had for the results of Shaw's researches: it starts with Spode and Copeland and runs through an impressive roll of manufacturers, colourers, and merchants. At much the same time this was published, Disraeli tells us, in Coningsby, that Lord Monmouth's Paris dinners outshone the finest French banquet. The reason for this is that his plates were hot. And? I hear you ask. Well, for all their culinary superiority the French made flimsy porcelain that could not stand being heated. If they traded their wines for unrivalled English pottery the "dinners of both nations would be improved."
Keywords: science technology chemistry c19th England ceramics glass manufactures trades
Title: The Chemistry of the Several Natural and Artificial Heterogeneous Compounds, Used in Manufacturing Porcelain, Glass, and Pottery.
Description: London, printed for the author 1837. Stout octavo later quarter calf (maybe mid 20th century); xliv, 685pp, addenda leaf, portrait; bound with blank leaves at the end of each section. Repairs in the gutter of the title and two leaves of subscribers; the portrait foxed, minor flaws and a perfectly decent copy. ¶ From a notice seen in another copy of this we know that 250 copies were printed; it's quite rare. Fundamental in the progress of ceramics from a secretive art to a scientific industry, the list of subscribers gives some indication of the expectation that the industry had for the results of Shaw's researches: it starts with Spode and Copeland and runs through an impressive roll of manufacturers, colourers, and merchants. At much the same time this was published, Disraeli tells us, in Coningsby, that Lord Monmouth's Paris dinners outshone the finest French banquet. The reason for this is that his plates were hot. And? I hear you ask. Well, for all their culinary superiority the French made flimsy porcelain that could not stand being heated. If they traded their wines for unrivalled English pottery the "dinners of both nations would be improved."
Keywords: science technology chemistry c19th England ceramics glass manufactures trades
Price: AUD 675.00 = appr. US$ 467.01 Seller: Richard Neylon, Bookseller
- Book number: 8094
- Book number: 8094