A Collector's Guide to ABC Plates, Mugs and Things

Lancaster, Pennsylvania: Pridemark Press, 1980. Hardbound. VG (Has former owner's bookplate, otherwise clean.). Light blue cloth with gilt letters on spine & front cover; blue and color-illustrated dust jacket in mylar cover. 256 pages, 791 items illustrated in bw. "Most of the ABC plates were an export item from England to the United States. At the time they were manufactured they were considered rather ordinary and inexpensive and the records on them have virtually disappeared. Finding little information themselves, the authors decided a book on their (truncated) collection would be of some help to present and future collectors because interest in ABC plates has increased dramatically over the past five to ten years. This book contains photographs of 531 old English ABC plates, two pages of groups of plates in color and 260 photographs of various other ABC plates and things -- mugs, glass, tin, other china, lithographed and assorted items." (dj) Includes a bibliography. A tremendous resource. (Inventory #: 105537)