Ceramic Literature

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Excerpt from Ceramic Literature: An Analytical Index to the Works Published in All Languages on the History and the Technology of the Ceramic ArtIt has been said that ours is an age of bibliographies. One should not wonder at the considerable number of classified lists of books brought out during the last few years as an assistance to scientific and historical researches, they were but answering a demand created by absolute necessity. In the present state of human knowledge, when so much has been written upon every possible subject, the pursuit of any special branch of learning can scarcely be prosecuted without the use and help of some synoptic survey of the whole range of pertinent literature. Every student feels the want of a reliable handbook to the knowledge of books, a mentor who will point out to him the best sources from which solid instruction is to be obtained, every author shall find his task much lightened if an index to all the publications he may have to consult is placed at his disposal.Bookland is extending its area with alarming rapidity. Printed matter rushes out in a powerful and far-reaching stream from the printer's press, unceasingly at work all over the civilised world. Raging volcanoes, the lava they vomit with ever-increasing activity, spreads far and wide, and wherever it passes the configuration of the ground is for ever transformed. In the field, where the learned bibliophile once used to move with so much ease and facility, landmarks are gradually obliterated, boundaries are continuously displaced. Who will, soon, dare to wade. guideless, across the chaos of volumes, pamphlets, and leaflets added every day to the accumulated legacy of untold generations? Who will, unassisted, attempt to reduce into order their bewildering confusion? To shape a straight course through a labyrinth in which the way is constantly intersected by fresh paths branching off widely in all directions shall be. at no distant date, placed beyond the range of human possibility. A wise explorer should, therefore, rest satisfied if he succeeds in drawing out the correct chart of a mere comer of the limitless expanse which opens before him. In the wild stretch, ceramic literature forms a quiet oasis. From end to end of the region, the distance is not so great that the traveller should feel his forces exhausted before he has had time to visit its most remote and secreted spots. His discoveries, it is true, shall be of a modest order. No towering summit, no gigantic tree, will meet his eye, breaking with lofty lines the tame features of the landscape. A moment of surprise at the sight of a solitary rock, a pleasant rest by a flowery bush. may occasionally relieve the monotony of his pengrination.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.