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THE STORY OF A DORSET VILLAGE IN POSTCARDS Abbotsbury, Dorset in postcards
 
Greetings
From
Abbotsbury
 
Edited by Paul Atterbury

Paul Atterbury with his new book about Abbotsbury, DorsetPaul Atterbury has become a regulat visitor to The Book Shop, signing his various books of postcards

The postcards reproduced in this book have been drawn from a private collection and many are extremely rare.


These are just two of the many postcards of Abbotsbury reproduced in this book.
postcard of Abbotsbury, dorset

 

left: Published by Jerome 1938. Joe Gill and Fred Lexster, Swanherd, outside the decoy man's cottage at the Swanery.

right: Published by Seward, Weymouth - 1929. This view was probably taken from the church tower, looking along Market Street to the norht, with the school at the top in Market Square.

postcard of Abbotsbury, dorset


Paul Atterbury is a freelance writer and lecturer specializing in 19th- and 20th-century art and design, particularly ceramics. He was formerly historical adviser to Royal Doulton and editor of The Connoisseur. His varied interests include printed ephemera, sculpture, and railway relics. He was the Curator of the Pugin exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, in 1994, and the same museum's "Victorian Vision" exhibition in 2001.

If you would like to order any of Paull's books, just contact The Book Shop and we will deal with it without delay.

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Other books associated with Paul Atterbury:
TITLE
AUTHOR
PUBLISHER
YEAR PRICE
Cornish ware
Paul Atterbury
Richard Dennis Pub.
1996 £8.75
Cornish ware & domestic pottery by T.G. Green
Paul Atterbury
Richard Dennis Pub.
2001 £18.00
The cube teapot
Anne Anderson
Richard Dennis Pub.
1999 £13.00
The dictionary of Minton
Paul Atterbury
ACC
1999 £45
Encyclopedia of antiques
Lars Tharp
Brown Little
1998 £19.99
Gilbert Bayes: sculpter 1872-1953
Louise Irvine
Richard Dennis Pub.
1998 £17.50
The illustrated encyclopedia of antiques
Lars Tharp
Brown Little
1994 £35.00
Know your antiques
Tim Forrest
Brown Little
1996 £22.50
Midwinter Pottery
Steven Jenkins
Richard Dennis Pub.
1997 £18.00
Moorcroft
Paul Atterbury
Richard Dennis Pub.
1993 £40.00
The Parian phenomenon
Paul Atterbury
Richard Dennis Pub.
1989 £48.00
Poole in the 1950's
Paul Atterbury
Richard Dennis Pub.
1997 £5.00
Poole Pottery
Leslie Hayward
Richard Dennis Pub.
1998 £45.00
Pugin: a Gothic passion
Paul Atterbury
Yale UP
1994 £30.00
Ruskin pottery
Paul Atterbury
Baxendale Press
1993 £48.00
A.W.N. Pugn
Paul Atterbury
Yale UP
1996 £45.00
A.W.N. Pugn
Paul Atterbury
Yale UP
1996 £25.00
AA Discovering Britain's Lost Railways
Paul Atterbury
AA Publishing
1999
£12.99
Miller's 20 Century ceramics
Paul Atterbury
Miller's
1999 £25.00
The Thames
Paul Atterbury
W&N Illustrated
2002 £9.99
The Country Railway
Paul Atterbury
W&N Illustrated
1999  
Victorians at home & abroad
Paul Atterbury
V&A Publications
2001 £9.95

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