A collection of eighteen pottery and porcelain reference books, including The Earle Collection of Early Staffordshire Pottery, Major Cyril Earle, T.D., Old Dutch Pottery and Tiles, Elisabeth Neurdenburg and Bernard Rackham, No. 11 of 100 copies printed on hand-made paper, bound in pigskin and signed, The Glaisher Collection of Pottery & Porcelain, Bernard Rackham, parts one and two, Pratt Ware, J & G Lewis, Pilkington's Royal Lancastrian Pottery and Tiles, A J. Cross, and Christie's Pictorial History of European Pottery, Morley-Fletcher and McIlroy, together with four reference auction catalogues, including The Watney Collection parts one, two and three. Provenance: from the private collection of David Armitage, former conservator to the Department of Eastern Art at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, between 1970 and 1999.