Collectors Encyclopedia of American Dinnerware

The book is well illustrated but it smells so bad from cigarettes, you really need to tell people about things like this when reselling a book I have it in my garage with air freshener fabric sheets I hope itvworks

I really love this book. I've used it many times to find the names of patterns I have from years of estate sales to sell on e-Bay. Great work.

A wonderful beautifully done book.This is a great book for looking up patterns. There are plenty of color photos which show great detail. I plan on buying the previous and subsequent volumns of this book.

The Collector's Encyclopedia of AMERICAN DINNERWARE contains hundreds of full color pictures as well as copies of the original store and catalogue ads. All pieces shown are priced. Book contains a price index (1984) and a complete glossary of dinnerware terms in the back. I enjoyed the references, however I was disappointed that not all the pieces to any particular pattern were listed or priced. Over-all this is a good book for novice collectors or just the curious.