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PORCELAIN - MANUSCRIPT DODDS (Rev. GEORGE) "1828. Remarks on Porcelain Intended as a Companion to Mrs. Wilson's China Room", MANUSCRIPT, [Gainsborough, 9 July 1828] image 1
PORCELAIN - MANUSCRIPT DODDS (Rev. GEORGE) "1828. Remarks on Porcelain Intended as a Companion to Mrs. Wilson's China Room", MANUSCRIPT, [Gainsborough, 9 July 1828] image 2
THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE KENNETH JOHN HEWETT

K.J. Hewett (1919-1994) was a renowned London dealer in ethnographic art and antiquities. Other books from his library were offered in these rooms on 21 March 2018.
Lot 218

PORCELAIN - MANUSCRIPT
DODDS (Rev. GEORGE) "1828. Remarks on Porcelain Intended as a Companion to Mrs. Wilson's China Room", MANUSCRIPT, [Gainsborough, 9 July 1828]

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
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PORCELAIN - MANUSCRIPT

DODDS (Rev. GEORGE) "1828. Remarks on Porcelain Intended as a Companion to Mrs. Wilson's China Room", MANUSCRIPT, in black ink with footnotes in red, 125 sheets written on verso only (title within calligraphic illustration of a vase, dedication to Mrs Wilson on 2 sheets, text on leaves numbered 1-122), 4 hand-coloured lithographed plates, each captioned in ink ("Specimens of Wedgwood's Manufacture", "...the Dresden Manufacture", "...Berlin Manufacture", "...Sevres Manufacture"), with one duplicate plate loose, one transfer print for a plate (bound next to the description of the transfer technique), text watermarked "J. Whatman, 1827", plates watermarked "1825" and "1827", contemporary green morocco gilt, g.e., 4to, [Gainsborough, 9 July 1828]

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A handsomely presented manuscript in which the author "remarks" on the manufacture of earthenware and porcelain, and presents it to Mrs. Christopher Wilson "...in the hope that they may if possible add some little interest to her China Room, which is already so perfect in specimens of the works of art in all ages...". The author was an Anglican, George Dodds, sometime curate of Rochdale, then Gainsborough (in Lincolnshire). In 1827 his A Companion to the Minerals and Fossils, Contained in the Ledstone Museum (1827) was privately printed in Rochdale for Mrs. Wilson, then living at Ledstone, Yorkshire, presumably the location of her "China Room". It seems probable that the present manuscript, neatly presented and "copy-ready" for lithographing, was intended to be produced as a companion volume to this work, but for some reason was never published. It is known that by 1834 the Wilsons had moved to another part of Yorkshire, and by 1841 were living at Oxton Hall, near Tadcaster.

Provenance: S[ophia] Wilson, Oxton Hall, Yorkshire, ownership stamp. Sophia Wilson (died 1848) was the wife of Christopher Wilson, so-called "Father of the Turf", a successful Yorkshire racing horse owner, most notably of "Champion", which in 1800 became the first horse to win both the Derby and St. Leger; Graham Pollard (1903-1976, bibliographer), bookplate.

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