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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning and marking due to age. In 3 Volumes. Year 1923. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> The collection is now exhibited in Rooms 65-69 (formerly known as the Ceramic Gallery). In the Introduction to the Handbook to the Collection published in 1883 it was pointed out that “There have been many “most valuable and important gifts and bequests made from time to time to the South Kensington Museum.. But it is “a mere statement of a simple fact to say that in money value- “setting aside all consideration of other questions connected with “it the bequest of Mr. Jones exceeds them all.” The bequest was indeed a most munificent gift and one for which the Museum must always remain very deeply indebted to Mr. Jones. By a singular piece of good fortune the Wallace Collection with which this bequest was compared in the same Introduction has also become national property and it is a matter for great satisfaction that by the generosity of Lady Wallace and Mr. Jones the Nation should now possess such superb collections as those at Hertford House and South Kensington. The accompanying catalogue is the third of three volumes the first of which deals with the furniture and the second (now in preparation) with the metal-work and jewellery ceramics. (OS)