This is a set of rare books. Limited / numbered edition: 407 of 1500. Published by Cassell and Company, London, England. They have original gilt decorated buckram binding and TEG (top edge gilt).

An account of the potter's art in China from primitive times to the present day. 

Volume I: Potter and Early Wares

Volume II: Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain

Author R. L. Hobson is the keeper of the Department of Ceramics and Ethnography at the British Museum and an authority on Far Eastern ceramics.