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MILITARIA—see also Medals

Johnson, A. C. Chats on Military Curios. 1915

Wilkinson, F. Militaria. 1969

MINIATURES

Bolton, T. Early American Portrait Painters in Miniature. New York, 1921 Bradley, J. W. A Dictionary of Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers and

Copyists. 3 vols. 1958 Bussagli, M. Indian Miniatures. 1969 Delaissl, L. M. J. Medieval Miniatures. 1965

Foskett, D. British Portrait Miniatures. 1963 (1968); John Smart: The Man

and his Miniatures. 1964 Foster, J. J. Miniature Painters. 2 vols. 1903 Hand, S. Signed Miniatures. 1925 Heath, D. Miniatures. 1905 Lister, R. The British Miniature. 1951 Long, B. S. British Miniaturists 1520-1860. 1929

(1967)

O’Brien, D. Miniatures of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. 1952

Porcher, J. French Miniatures. 1960

Propcrt, J. L. A History of Miniature Art. 1887

Rcilly, D. R. Portrait Waxes. 1953

Reynolds, G. English Portrait Miniatures. 1953

Schidlof, L. The Miniature in Europe. 4 vols. (Edition of 750 copies.) 1965 Williamson, G. G. The Miniature Collector. 1921

MIRRORS

Roche, S. Mirrors. English translation 1957 Wills, G. English Looking-Glasses. 1965

MODEL SOLDIERS—see also Toys

Featherstone, D. F. War Games. 1962; Tackle Model Soldiers This Way.

1963; Battles with Model Soldiers. Newton Abbot, 1970 Garratt, J. G. Model Soldiers. 1962 Harris, E. Model Soldiers. 1962

Nicollier, J. Collecting Toy Soldiers. Rutland, Vermont, 1967 Wells, H. G. Floor Games. 1911; Little Wars. 1913 Young, P. and Lawford, J. P. Charge. 1967

MONUMENTAL BRASSES

Busby, R. J. The Beginner’s Guide to Brass Rubbing. 1969

Davis, C. T. The Monumental Brasses oj Gloucestershire. 1889 (1969)

Druitt, H. Manual oj Costume as illustrated by Monumental Brasses. 1906

Kite, E. The Monumental Brasses oj Wiltshire. 1860 (1969)

Macklin, H. W. Monumental Brasses. 1905 (1953)

Trivick, H. The Crajt and Design oj Monumental Brasses

MUSICAL AUTOMATA

Chapius, A. and Droz, E. Automata. 1960

MUSICAL BOXES

Clarke, J. E. T. Musical Boxes: A History and Appreciation. (Contains a valuable appendix with a list of makers of musical boxes, mechanical singing birds and automata.) 1948 (1961) Hoke, H. and J. Music Boxes: Their

Lure and Lore. New York, 1957 Ord-Hume, A. W. J. G. Collecting Musical Boxes and How to Repair Them. 1967

Webb, G. The Cylinder Musical Box Handbook. 1968 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS—see also Violins

Anderson, O. The Bowed Harp: A Study of the History of Early Musical

Instruments. 1930 Armstrong, R. B. English and Irish Instruments. 1908 Baines, A. European and American Musical Instruments. 1966 Blades, J. Percussion Instruments and Their History. 1969 Boalch, D. Makers of the

Harpsichord and Clavichord (1440-1840). 1955 Boyden, D. D. Catalogue of the Hill Collection oj Musical Instruments in

the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. 1969 Bragard, R. Musical Instruments in Art and History. 1969 Buchner, A. Mechanical Musical Instruments. 1961; Musical Instruments

through the Ages. 1957 Carse, A. Musical Wind Instruments. New York, 1939 (1965) Clemencic, R. Old Musical Instruments. 1968 Donington, R. The Instruments of Music. Third edtn. 1953 Galpin, F. W. Old English

Instruments of Music. 1932 (1964); A Textbook

of European Instruments. 1937

Geiringer, K. Musical Instruments. 1943 (1965) Harding, R. The Pianoforte, its History to 1851. 1933

James, P. Early Keyboard Instruments: Their History from the Stone Ag* to

the Present Day. 1961 Marcuse, S. Musical Instruments: A Comprehensive Dictionary. 1966 Rendall, G. The Clarinet. 1954 Russell, R. The Harpsichord and Clavichord. 1959 Sharpc, A. P. The Story of the Spanish Guitar.

1954

NEEDLEWORK—see also Embroidery

Alford, Lady M. Needlework as an Art. 1886

Armcs, A. Early Smoeks. Leicester, 1950

Day, L. F. Art in Needlework. 1900

Finley, R. E. Old Patchwork Quilts. New York, 1929

Glaistcr, E. Needlework. 1880

Groves, S. The History of Needlework Tools and Accessories. 1967

Hall, M. R. English Church Needlework. 1901

Harbcson, G. B. American Needlework. New York, 1938

Hughes, T. English Domestic Needlework (1660-1860). 1961

Kendrick, A. F. English Needlework. 1933 (1967). (Latest edition revised

by Patricia Wardle.) Morris, J. A. The Art of Ayrshire White Needlework. Glasgow, 1916 Morris, M. Decorative Needlework. 1893

Symonds, M. and Preece, L. Needlework through the Ages. 1928 NETSUKE

Brockhaus, A. Netsuke. Leipzig, 1905 Jonas, F. M. Netsuke. 1928 (1969) Newman, A. R. Japanese Art. 1965

O’Brien, M. L. Netsuke: A Guide for Collectors. Rutland, Vermont, U.S.A..

and Tokyo, Japan, 1965 Reitichi, U. The Netsuke Handbook. (English translation from the Japan

cse.) 1964

Rycrson, E. The Netsuke of Japan. 1968 PAINTING

This list includes only a number of general books on American, English and French painting. Biographical books on some individual artists are given under their names on pp. 45-70. The most useful book of reference is

Bcnczit’s Dictionary of the Painters, Sculptors and Engravers of every country and of every ag* to the year 1966 in 8 volumes, though, unfortunately for English-speaking readers, the text is in French.

Baker, C. N. and Constable, W. C. English Paintings of th* Sixteenth and

Seventeenth Centuries. 1930 Barker, A. American Painting: History and Interpretation. New York, 1950 Baur, J. I. II. American Painting in the Ninteenth C*ntury. New York, 1953 Boase, T. S. R. English Art (1800-1870).

1959 Combrech, E. H. The Story of Art. London and New York, 1950 Croft-Murray, E. Decorative Painting in England. 1963

Daniel, H. Adventures in Art: A Guide to Gallery-going. London, New York

and Toronto, 1960 Dickes, W. F. The Norwich School of Painting. 1905 Etheridge. K. Collecting Drawings. 1970

Flcxncr, J. H. A Short History of American Paintings. Bostou, 1950

Freedman, VV. B. Pre-Raphaelitism: a Bibliocritical Study. Harvard, 1965 Gaunt, W. The Observer’s Book oj Painting and Graphic Art. 1958; A Concise History oj English Painting. 1964; The Pre-Raphaelite Tragedy. 1942

Graves, A. A Dictionary oj Artists. Third Edition 1907. Reprinted 1969 Hardie, M. Water Colour Painting in Britain. Vol I. The Eighteenth Century.

1966 (1967); Vol. II. The Romantic Period. 1967 Hauser, A. The Social History oj Art. New York, 1951

Hughes, C. E. Early English Water Colour. 1913; Revised by J. Mayne, 1960

Ironside, R. and Gere, J. A. Pre-Raphaelite Painters. 1948 Larkin, O. W. Life and Art in America. New York, 1949 Maas, J. Victorian Painters. 1969

Newton, E. British Painting. 1945; European Painting and Sculpture. London and New York, 1950 Proctor, I. Masters of British Nineteenth-Century Art. 1961 Redgrave, S. and R. A Century of Painters of the English

School. 1866;

Revised cdtn., 1947 Reynolds, G. Painters of the Victorian Scene. 1953; Victorian Painting. 1966 Richardson, E. P. Painting in America. 1956. (With a very good bibliography.)

Sparrow, W. S. British Sporting Artists. 1922 (1965) Taylor, B. Animal Painting in England. 1955 Waterhouse, E. Painting in Britain (1530-1790). 1953

Wilenski, R. II. English Painting. 1933; Modern French Painters. 1911

(1947)

Williams, I. Early English Water Colours. 1952

PAPERWEIGHTS

Bedford, J. Paperweights. 1968

Bergstrom, E. II. Old Glass Paperweights. 1947 (1968) Cloak, E. C. Glass Paperweights. 1970

Elville, E. M. Paperweights and other Glass Curiosities. 1954 Imbert and Amic, Y. French Crystal Paperweights. 1948

Jokelson, P. Antique French Glass Paperweights. New York, 1955; Glass

Paperweights and Cameo Heads. New York, 1968 Manheim, F. J. A Garland of Weights. Limited Edition, 1968

PAPIER MAC HE

Dickinson, G. English Papier Mdchi. 1925

Toller, J. Antique Papier Mdche in Great Britain and America. 1962 PEWTER

Bedford, J. Pewter. 1965

Bell, M. Old Pewter. New York, 1905; Revised Edtn. London, 1913 CottereU, H. H. Old Pewter and How to Collect It. 1913; Bristol and West-Country Pewterers. 1918; Old Pewter: Its Makers and Marks in England,

Scotland and Ireland. 1929 (1965); Pewter Down the Ages. Plymouth,

1932

Cottcrell, II. H. and Westropp, M. Irish Pewterers. 1917

de Navarro, A. Causeries on English Pewter. 1911 (1924)

Englcfield, E. A Treatise on Pewter and its Manufacture. 1933

Gale, E. J. Pewter and the Amateur Collector. 1910

Ingleby Wood, L. Scottish Pewterware and Pewterers. Edinburgh, 1907

Markham, C. II. Pewter Marks and Old Pewter Ware. 1928 (1948)

Massd, EL J. Pewter Plate. 1904 (1911); The Pewter Collector: A Guide to English Pewter. 1921; Chats on Old Pewter. 1911; Revised by R. F. Michaelis, 1949

Michaelis, R. F., Antique Pewter of the British Isles. 1955; British Pewter. 1969

Price, F. G. H. Old Base Metal Spoons. 1908 Verster, A. J. G. Old European Pewter. 1959 Ullyett, K. Pewter Collecting for Amateurs. 1967

Welch, C. History of the Worshipful Company of Pewterers. 2 vols. 1902 PICTURE POSTCARDS

Alderson, F. The Comic Postcard in English Life. Newton Abbot, 1970 Carline, R. Pictures in the Post. 1959

Staff, F. The Penny Post, 1680-1918. 1964; The Picture Postcard and its Origins. 1966

PIPES, TOBACCO

Sources listed in The Concise Encyclopaedia of Antiques. Vol. 4, p. 208. 1959

Scott, C. and A. Tobacco and the Collector. 1966

PLAYING CARDS

Bcnham, W. G. Playing Cards. 1931

Hargrave, C. P. A History of Playing Cards. Boston, 1930 Mann, S. Collecting Playing Cards. Reprint, 1967 Morley, H. I. Old and Curious Playing Cards. 1931 Taylor, E. S. The History of Playing Cards. 1865 Tilley, R.

Playing Cards. 1967

PONTYPOOL AND USK WARES—sec also Japanned Wares John, W. D. Pontypool and Usk Japanned Wares. 1965

PORCELAIN AND POTTERY MARKS

Chaffers, W. Marks and Monograms on Pottery and Porcelain, Fifteenth

Edition, 2 vols. 1965; Collector’s Handbook of Marks and Monograms on

Pottery and Porcelain. Fourth Edition, 1968. Cushion, J. P. Pocket Book of English Ceramic Marks. 1959 (1965); Pocket

Book of German Ceramic Marks. 1961; Pocket Book of French and Italian

Ceramic Marks. 1965 Cushion, J. P. and Honey, W. B. Handbook of Pottery and Porcelain Marks.

1956

Godden, G. A. Encyclopaedia of British Pottery and Porcelain Marks. 1964; Illustrated Encyclopaedia of British Pottery and Porcelain. 1966; Handbook of British Pottery and Porcelain Marks. 1968

Kovel, R. M. and T. H. A Dictionary of Marks. 1953

Macdonald-Taylor, M. A Dictionary of Marks. 1962

Rhead, G. W. British Pottery Marks. 1910

PORCELAIN AND POTTERY—GENERAL

Barber, E. A. Pottery and Porcelains of the United States. 1901

Bedford, J. Talking About Teapots. 1964

Bemrose, G. Nineteenth-Century English Pottery and Porcelain. 1952 (1968) Binns, W. M. The First Century of English Porcelain. 1906

books  for reading and reference

Blacker, J. F. The A.B.C. of Nineteenth Century English Ceramics. 1911 (1920)

Burton, W. History and Descriptions of English Porcelain. 1902; History and Description of English Earthenware and Stoneware. 1904; Porcelain, Its Nature, Art and Manufacture. 1906; General History of Porcelain. 2

vols. 1921

Charleston, R. J. (Ed.) English Porcelain, 1745-1850. 1965; World Ceramics. 1968

Church, A. English Earthenware. 1914

Cox, W. E. The Book of Pottery and Porcelain. New York, 1945

Cushion, J. P. English China Collecting for Amateurs. 1967

Dixon, J. L. English Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century. 1952

Fisher, S. VV. English Blue and White Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century.

1947; China Collector’s Guide. 1957; British Pottery and Porcelain. 1962;

English Ceramics. 1966 Fleming, J. A. Scottish Pottery. Glasgow, 1923

Godden, G. A. British Pottery and Porcelain, 1780-1850. 1963; Victorian

Porcelain. 1961 Hagger, R. G. English Country Pottery. 1950

Hayden, A. Chats on English China. 1904; Chats on English Earthenware. 1909.

Hillier, B. Pottery and Porcelain, 1700-1914. 1968

Hobson, R. British Museum Catalogue of English Pottery. 1903; British

Museum Catalogue of English Porcelains. 1905 Hodgson, W. How to Identify Old China. 1903; Old English China. 1913 Hodkin, J. E. and E. Examples of Early English Pottery. 1896 Honey, W. B. Old English Porcelain.

1928 (1948); English Pottery and Porcelain. 1947 (Revised by R. J. Charleston, 1968) Hughes, G. B. Victorian Pottery and Porcelain. 1959 (1968); English and Scottish Earthenware, 1660-1860. 1961; English Pottery and

Porcelain Figures. 1964

Hughes, G. B. and T. English Porcelain and Bone China, 1743-1850. 1955

(1968)

Jewitt, W. The Ceramic Art of Great Britain. 2 vols. 1878-1883

King, W. Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century. 1925

Lane, A. English Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century. 1961

Lewis, G. A Picture History of English Pottery. 1956; A Collector’s History

of English Pottery. 1969 Litchfield, F. Pottery and Porcelain: A Guide for Collectors. 1900; Rewritten

by Frank Tilley, 1963 Mankowitz, W. and Haggar, R. G. The Concise Encyclopaedia of English

Pottery and Porcelain. London and New York, 1957 Morley-Fletcher, H. Investing in Pottery and Porcelain. 1968 Nightingale, J. E. Contributions towards the History of Early English Porcelain. 1881

Rackham, B. Catalogue of the Schreiber Collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Vol 1 Porcelain (1915); Vol. 2 Earthenware (1929); Medieval English Pottery. 1947; Early Staffordshire Pottery. 1951

Rackham, B. and Read, H. English Pottery. 1924

Rhead, G. W. Staffordshire Pots and Potters. 1906; The Earthenware Collector. 1920

Roscoc, W. English Porcelain Figures, 1744-1848. 1947

Rosenfeld, B. Eighteenth-Century Porcelain Figures. 1950

Savage, G. Eighteenth-Century English Porcelain. 1952; Porcelain through

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