Staffordshire Portrait Figures of the Victorian Era by P.D. Gordon Pugh

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Description: When this book was first published in 1970 it provided what the collector of Staffordshire portrait figures had long wanted  a vast photographic reference to the fifteen hundred or so portrait figures which were produced in the nineteenth century and which encapsulate so much of the history of Victorian England.
As a collecting subject these figures are immensely popular throughout the English speaking world and beyond, and the increases in prices being recorded confirm the continued interest.
Why are Staffordshire figures so popular? They are extremely decorative and also often have a naïvete and charm which strikes a sympathetic chord among a wide range of collectors, while the subjects of the figures themselves, as well as the events which they record  from murderers to politicians, from soldiers to actresses -; are the very fabric from which history is made.
This book is a revised edition of the standard work affectionately known as 'Pugh'. While it is based on the 1981 revised edition and carefully follows the system of reference numbering, the text has been moved so that the 900 black and white illustrations and captions are now close together and the book therefore a great deal easier to use.
The 62 colour photographs have been taken for this edition at the City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, where the bulk of Surgeon Rear-Admiral Pughs collection now rests.
Staffordshire Portrait Figures is an invaluable work, not only because of the wide range of information it contains but also because it looks at collecting pitfalls such as forgeries, fakes, reproductions and repairs.
The Author
The late P.D. Gordon Pugh, O.B.E., was educated at Lancing College and Jesus College, Cambridge, and the Middlesex Hospital.
He qualified as a doctor and pursued his distinguished medical career within the Navy, rising to the rank of Surgeon Rear-Admiral. His other publications on both medicine and ceramics include Nelson and his Surgeons, Naval Ceramics and Heraldic China Mementoes of the First World War.

This long awaited book was first published in 1970

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