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• Lady Charlotte Schreiber's Journals: Confidences of a Collector of Ceramics and Antiques throughout Britain, France, Holland, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Austria and Germany from the Year 1869-1885 (2 volumes; London and New York: John Lane, 1911), by Charlotte Schreiber, ed. by Montague John Guest, contrib. by Egan Mew
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Rare books and their prices; with chapters on pictures, pottery, porcelain, and postage stamps. (London, G. Redway, 1896), by W. Roberts (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Byways of collecting / by Ethel Deane. (London : Cassell, 1908), by Ethel Deane (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Some hobby horses; (London, W. H. Allen & co., 1890), by C. A. Montresor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Anglo-American pottery : old English china with American views, a manual for collectors / Edwin Atlee Barber. (Indianapolis, Ind. : Press of the Clay-worker, 1899), by Edwin Atlee Barber (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Hotel des commissaires-priseurs, par Champfleury [pseud.] (Paris, E. Dentu, 1867), by Champfleury (page images at HathiTrust)
• The A B C of collecting old English china, giving a short history of the English factories, and showing how to apply tests for unmarked china before 1800, by J. F. Blacker ... (Philadelphia, G. W. Jacobs & co., [1911]), by J. F. Blacker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lure of the antique / by Walter A. Dyer; being a book of ready reference for collectors of old furniture, china, mirrors, candlesticks, silverware, pewter, glassware, copper utensils, clocks and other houehold furnishings of our American forefathers, and a handy guide for the determination of age, style, maker, genuineness, and value, illustrated with one hundred and fifty-nine photographs. (New York : The Century Company, 1910), by Walter A. Dyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• By-paths in collecting : being aids in the quest of rare and unique things which have passed the century mark, such as old china, furniture, pewter, copper, brass, samplers and sun-dials, with comments on their age, decoration and value. (New York : The Century company, 1912), by Virginia Huntington Robie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The connoisseur : essays on the romantic and picturesque associations of art and artists / by Frederick S. Robinson. (London : G. Redway, 1897), by Frederick S. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The quest of the colonial [by] Robert and Elizabeth Shackleton; illustrated with many photographs and with decorations by Harry Fenn. (New York, The Century company, 1921 [c1907]), by Robert Shackleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• More about collecting, by Sir James Yoxall ... (Philadelphia, G. W. Jacobs & co., [1913]), by J. H. Yoxall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Connaissances nécessaires à un amateur d'objets d'art et de curiosité, par Ancel Oppenheim, expert; ouvrage contenant par ordre alphabétique le nom des objects, la date des époques de fabrication, les prix commerciaux, etc. (Paris, E. Rouveyre, 1879), by Ancel Oppenheim (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Antique furniture handbook. ([Watkins Glen, N. Y., Century House, c1950-) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Causeries sur l'art et la curiosité / Edmond Bonnaffé ; front. par Jules Jacquemart. (Paris : A. Quantin, 1878), by Edmond Bonnaffé (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Kunst- und Wunderkammern der Spätrenaissance; ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Sammelwesens von Julius von Schlosser ; mit 102 Abbildungen. (Leipzig, Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1908), by Julius Schlosser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The ABC of collecting old English china, giving short history of the English factories, and showing how to apply tests for unmarked china before 1800. (London : London Opinion Curio Club, 1908), by J. F. Blacker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The art of the great masters, as exemplified by drawings in the collection of Émile Wauters, membre de l'Académie royale de Belgique, by Frederic Lees. (London : S. Low, Marston & co. ltd., 1913), by George Frederic William Lees (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Collector's luck; (Boston : The Atlantic monthly press, 1919), by Alice van Leer Carrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chats on old silver, by Arthur Hayden ... With frontispiece and ninety-nine full-page illustrations, together with illustrated tables of marks. (London : T. F. Unwin, [1917]), by Arthur Hayden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The gentle art of faking : a history of the methods of producing imitations & spurious works of art from the earliest times up to the present day / by Riccardo Nobili. (London : Seeley Service & co.,ltd., 1922), by Riccardo Nobili (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'art de reconnaître les fraudes; peinture, sculpture, gravure, meubles, dentelles, céramique, etc. Ouvrage orné de 115 gravures. (Paris, R. Roger et F. Chernoviz, 1914), by Emile Bayard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bye-paths in curio collecting / by Arthur Hayden; with frontispiece and 72 full-page illustrations. (London : T.F. Unwin ltd., [1919]), by Arthur Hayden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The bargain book / by Charles Edward Jerningham <Marmaduke> and Lewis Bettany. (London : Chatto & Windus, 1911), by Charles Edward Wynne Jerningham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• First steps in collecting / by G. M. Vallois. (London : T.W. Laurie, ltd., [1913]), by Grace M. Vallois (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• On collecting Japanese colour-prints; being an introduction to the study and collection of colour-prints of the Ukiyoye school of Japan. Illustrated by examples from the author's collection. By Basil Stewart. (New York, Dodd, Mead & company, 1917), by Basil Stewart (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chats on cottage and farmhouse furniture, by Arthur Hayden, with a chapter on Old English chintzes, by Hugh Phillips; and seventy-three full-page illustrations. (New York, Frederick A. Stokes company, [1911]), by Arthur Hayden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The lace & embroidery collector; a guide to collectors of old lace and embroidery, by Mrs. Head. (New York, Dodd, Mead and company, 1922), by R. E. Head (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hobby protection act/antique glassware and china hearing, Ninety-third Congress, first session, February 28, 1973. (Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1973), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Commerce and Finance (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oh! fickle taste; or, Objectivity in art. Pref. by René Huyghe. ([New York] B. Wheelwright Co., 1952), by Germain Seligman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bibelots and curios: a manual for collectors, with a glossary of technical terms. (New York, D. Appleton and company, 1879), by Frederic Vors (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le commerce de la curiosité. (Paris, H. Champion, 1895), by Edmond Bonnaffé (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The unpublishable memoirs / by A.S.W. Rosenbach. (New York : M. Kennerley, 1917), by A. S. W. Rosenbach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rare books and their prices; with chapters on pictures, pottery, porcelain and postage stamps, by W. Roberts. (New York, Longmans, Green & Co., 1896), by W. Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• The curiosity world. (Lake Village, N.H. : J.M. Hubbard, 1886-1888) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Connaissances nécessaires à un amateur d'objets d'art et de curiosité, par Ancel Oppenheim, expert; ouvrage contenant par ordre alphabétique le nom des objects, la data des époques de fabrication, les prix commerciaux, etc. (Paris, E. Rouveyre, 1879), by Ancel Oppenheim (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catalogue of the Soulages collection : being a descriptive inventory of a collection of works of decorative art, formerly in the possession of Jules Soulages of Toulouse; now, by permission of the committee of privy council for trade, exhibited to the public at the Museum of Ornamental Art, Marlborough House / by J.C.Robinson, December, 1856. (London : Chapman & Hall, 1856), by J. C. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The connoisseur : essays on the romantic and picturesque associations of art and artists. (New York : Longmans, Green & Co., 1897), by ROBINSON (F.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pantheon : addressbuch der kunst- und antiquitätensammler und -händler, bibliotheken, archive, museen, kunst-, altertums- und geschichtsvereine, bücherliebhaber, numismatiker; ein handbuch für das sammelwesen der ganzen welt / beard. auf anregung von Joseph Zenker ... (Eszlingen a. N. : P. Neff verlag (M. Schreiber), 1914) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Illustrated catalogue of the very notable collection of American paintings formed during the past twenty-five years by Dr. Alexander C. Humphreys catalogue written by William A. Coffin. (New York, American Art Association, [1917]), by Alexander Crombie Humphreys (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christian Ludwig von Hagedorn : ein Diplomat und Sammler des 18. Jahrhunderts / von Moritz Stübel. (Leipzig : Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1912), by Moritz Stübel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The ABC of Japanese art, J.F. Blacker, with forty-nine half-tone illustrations, printed on art paper, and numerous illustration [!] in the text. (London, S. Paul & co., [1911]), by J. F. Blacker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A guide to collectors, 3,500 illustrations. English furniture, decoration, woodwork & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth ... (London, McCorquodale, [1918]), by Thomas Arthur Strange (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Collecting antiques for pleasure and profit; the narrative of twenty-five years search for antique furniture, prints, china, paintings and other works of art, copiously pictured with many fine examples. By Felix Gade. (New York, Putnam, 1922), by Felix Gade (page images at HathiTrust)
• The A B C about collecting, by Sir James Yoxall. (London, S. Paul & co., [1910]), by J. H. Yoxall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The quest of the quaint, by Virginia Robie. (Boston, Little, Brown, and company, 1916), by Virginia Robie (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of miniature art. With notes on collectors and collections. By J. L. Propert. (London, New York, Macmillan and co., 1887), by John Lumsden Propert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kunstgewerbliche Altertümer und Kuriositäten : Führer für Sammler und Liebhaber von Gegenständen der Kleinkunst, von Antiquitäten sowie bon Kuriositäten / begründet von J.G.Th. Graesse ; fortgeführt von F. Jaennicke ; samt Zeittafel und Register bearbeitet von Franz M. Feldhaus. (Berlin : R.C. Schmidt, 1916), by Johann Georg Theodor Grässe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Care and repair of antiques / by Thomas H. Ormsbee. (New York : Gramercy, c1949), by Thomas H. Ormsbee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Meditations of an autograph collector / by Adrian H. Joline. (New York : Harper, 1902), by Adrian H. Joline (page images at HathiTrust)
• American pewter, by J.B. Kerfoot. With illustrations from photographs by the author of specimens in his own collection. (New York, Crown publishers, [1942]), by John Barrett Kerfoot (page images at HathiTrust)
• The practical book of American antiques, exclusive of furniture, revised, and with a new supplement, by Harold Donaldson Eberlein and Abbot McClure; the chapter on early lace by Mabel Foster Bainbridge; the chapter on Sandwich glass by Lenore Wheeler Williams; with 257 illustrations, the drawings by Abbot McClure. (New York, Garden City Pub. Co., [c1927]), by Harold Donaldson Eberlein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Japanese collectors and what they collect, by Frederick Starr. (Chicago, The Bookfellows, 1921), by Frederick Starr (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Collecting as a pastime, by Charles Rowed. (London, New York [etc.] Cassell and company, ltd., 1920), by Charles Rowed (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The pleasures of collecting, by Gardner Teall; being sundry delectable excursions in the realm of antiques and curios, American, European, and Oriental. (New York, The Century company, 1920), by Gardner Callahan Teall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The ABC of Japanese art / by J.F. Blacker. (Toronto : Copp, Clark, [between 1911 and 1918]), by J. F. Blacker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sold to the lady in the green hat. (New York, Dodd, Mead, 1962), by Emma Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide to collectors. 3,500 illustrations. English furniture, decoration, woodwork & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth, by Thomas Arthur Strange. ([London, Glasgow, etc.], McCarquodale & co; New York, C. Scribner's sons, [1907]), by Thomas Arthur Strange (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A guide to collectors. 3,500 illustrations. English furniture, decoration, woodwork & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth, by Thomas Arthur Strange (London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & co., ltd., 1903]), by Thomas Arthur Strange (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The collector's manual, by N. Hudson Moore...with 336 engravings and with borders by Amy Richards... (New York, Frederick A. Stokes company, [c1906]), by N. Hudson Moore (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Anglo-American pottery; old English china with American views; a manual for collectors, by Edwin AtLee Barber ... (Philadelphia : Press of Patterson & White Company, 1901), by Edwin Atlee Barber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collecting antiques for pleasure and profit; the narrative of twenty-five years search for antique furniture, prints, china, paintings and other works of art, copiously pictured with many fine examples. By Felix Gade. (London : T. W. Laurie ltd., [1921]), by Felix Gade (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The oriental rug; a monograph on eastern rugs and carpets, saddle-bags, mats & pillows, with a consideration of kinds and classes, types, borders, figures, dyes, symbols, etc., together with some practical advice to collectors, by D.W. Ellwanger ... (New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903), by William De Lancey Ellwanger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early American craftsmen, by Walter A. Dyer ... being a series of sketches of the lives of the more important personalities in the early development of the industrial arts in America, together with sundry facts and photographs of interest and value to the collector of Americana. (New York, The Century company, 1915), by Walter A. Dyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pennsylvania Dutch stuff, a guide to country antiques, by Earl F. Robacker. (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1944), by Earl F. Robacker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The connoisseur, essays on the romantic and picturesque associations of artists. (London, G. Redway, 1897), by Frederick S. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Some notes on American pewterers, by Louis Guerineau Myers. (Garden City, N.Y., Printed for L.G. Myers by Country life Press, 1926), by Louis Guerineau Myers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collector's luck in Spain. (Boston : Little, Brown, 1930), by Alice Van Leer 1875- Carrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Connoisseur. ([New York, etc., Hearst Corp., etc.) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An encyclopedia of antiques, by Harold Lewis Bond ... (Boston, Hale, Cushman & Flint, 1937), by Harold Lewis Bond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Print restoration and picture cleaning: an illustrated practical guide to the restoration of all kinds of prints.--Together with chapters on cleaning water-colours, print "fakes" and their detection, anomalies in print values, and prints to collect. By Maurice James Gunn ... (London, "The Bazaar, exchange and mart", 1922), by Maurice James Gunn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Art treasures and intrigue (Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Doran & company, inc., [c1935]), by James Henry Duveen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to collectors : 3000 illustrations : English furniture, decoration, woodwork & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth / by Thomas Arthur Strange. ([London, 1900]), by Thomas Arthur Strange (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chats on cottage and farmhouse furniture ... with a chapter on old English chintzes by Hugh Phillips. (London : T. F. Unwin, 1912), by Arthur Hayden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The commonsense collector: a handbook of hints on the collecting and the housing of antique furniture, by Frank Frankfort Moore ... with fifty-two illustrations. (London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1910), by Frank Frankfort Moore (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sredi kollekt͡sionerov / Iv. Lazarevskīĭ. (S.-Peterburg : Izd. A.I. Grammatikova, 1914), by Ivan Ivanovich Lazarevskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Royal Copenhagen porcelain : its history and development from the eighteenth century to the present day / by Arthur Hayden ... with 5 coloured and 104 black-and-white plates and 70 illustrations in the text. (New York : McBride, Nast & co., 1912), by Arthur Hayden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Secrets of an art dealer / [by] James Henry Duveen. (New York : E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., [c1938]), by James Henry Duveen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Davis' standard collectors directory of North America : containing a full list of names and addresses of reliable collectors in ornithology, oology, mineralogy, archaeology, conchology, philately, numismatics, taxidermy and mammalogy. (Gainesville, Texas : Gainesville Printing Co., 1895), by Edwin C. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Museum. (Philadelphia, Pa. : W.F. Fell & co., printers.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les collectionneurs de l'ancienne Rome : notes d'un amateur. (Paris : A. Aubry, 1867), by Edmond Bonnaffé (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The quest of the colonial [by] Robert and Elizabeth Shackleton; illustrated with many photographs and with decorations by Harry Fenn. (New York, The Century Company, 1907), by Robert Shackleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• First steps in collecting, by G. M. Vallois ... (New York, Dodd, Mead & co., [1926]), by Grace M. Vallois (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rambles in autograph land, by Adrian H. Joline; illustrated with many portraits and facsimiles. (New York, G.P. Putnam's sons, 1913), by Adrian H. Joline (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionnaire des amateurs français au XVIIe siècle. (Paris : A. Quantin, 1884), by Edmond Bonnaffé (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A button collector's journal / [by] Lillian Albert. (Hightstown, N.J., [c1941]), by Lillian Smith Albert (page images at HathiTrust)
• The confessions of a collector; (London, Ward & Downey, 1897), by William Carew Hazlitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes from a collector's catalogue : with a bibliography of English cookery books / by A. W. Oxford. (London : J. and E. Bumpus, limited, 1909), by Arnold Whitaker Oxford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Notes from a collector's catalogue, with a bibliography of English cookery books. (London, J. and E. Bumpus, 1909), by Arnold Whitaker Oxford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The art of the old masters as told by Cennino Cennini in 1437, how they ground and mixed their colours, painted their pictures and miniatures, tinted their papers, made their varnishes, etc., etc. A reference work for the artist, picture collector, and others. (New York, Harper, 1899), by Cennino Cennini (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pewter collector; a guide to English pewter with some reference to foreign work, by H. J. L. J. Massé ... with numerous illustrations, including the touches from four of the touch plates in the possession of the Pewterers' company. (London, H. Jenkins, 1921), by H. J. L. J. Massé (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Collecting old miniatures, (London, W. Heinemann, [1916]), by J. H. Yoxall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Magazine antiques. ([New York : Straight Publications]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gazette des beaux-arts. (Paris : [Impr. de J. Claye, etc.], 1859-) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chats on Household Curios, by Fred. W. Burgess (Gutenberg ebook)

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