ISBN: 9780952658405 - the green frog service (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. Cacklegoose Press, 1995, number 468 of 1000 copies. Hardback, d/j, 4to, 424pp, illust. D/j bumped, creased and torn, (no slip-case). A fair copy. 0952658402/3.0uk.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. No. 855/950. Internally clean, hinges/joints remain firm with no faults or cracks, corners remain sharp. DJ remains clean with light wear to flaps, due to size and heft of book. Solid copy. BP/Ceramics.

Zustand: gut. The Green Frog Service In englischer Sprache. pages.

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Limited Numbered Edition. Limited numbered edition, one of 350 subscriber copies. 424 pp. Illustrated with b/w and colour plates. Full green stamped cloth in slipcase. A few light marks to rear of slipcase. A remarkable illustrated record of the 944-piece dinner and dessert service designed by Josiah Wedgwood for Empress Catherine the Great of Russia with exquisite hand painted views of 18th century England, Scotland and Wales. A fine copy. This is a heavy item and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. 0952658402 Large 4to.…

Original Green Cloth, Gilt. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Limited Edition of 1000 Copies. 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 in English Gothick style as a staging post between St Petersburg and her summer residence at Tsarskoe Selo. Surrounded by marshes, the palace was known as La Grenouillère, hence the device of a bright green frog that appears on every piece of the Service. The Empress particularly asked for views of landscape gardens, and many of the finest gardens in Britain are depicted, together with a great array of 'Antiquities' . ruined castles and abbeys, old manor houses, Cornish dolmens . as well as romantic landscapes, views on the Thames at London and even early industrial sites.…