The Collectors Encyclopedia of Roseville Pottery by Bob Huxford, Sharon Huxford (1980, Hardcover, Updated)

The Huxford’s books on Roseville Pottery are arguably the Best on the subject.
The photography is high quality and hundreds of photos will inspire you to want to collect Roseville.
The background information covers a wide variety of information and is very helpful
As you know and acknowledged in the book pricing is suggested as previous selling prices not intended to set prices.

A helpful reference for the collector of Roseville pottery. Very good graphics. This is a book a person needs so they are not "taken" by the influx of "NEW" Roseville pottery out there. This is a good take along when you are out there looking.

I thought I knew a little something about Roseville, until I received the encyclopedia. This is the consummate broad brush reference. It displays examples of virtually every pattern with excellent descriptions. A marvelous reference.

Here is why I bought the Roseville book. My son and I buy and sell antiques and collectibles. Recently, he brought me a piece of Roseville he had purchased for an unbelievably low price. I looked at it and it didn't look right to me but I had no references to compare it to. I ordered the reference book in order to find out the pattern name, see what it should look like for comparison and see if there were any other reference points. I was not concerned with current prices as I pretty well knew those if this piece was real. Therefore, I picked out the least expensive, used book. The book looked like new when it arrived, it had an excellent picture of the piece we own and I now know, sadly that we have a reproduction because the book states this piece should not be embossed on bottom and ours was.So you see, I was happy with book, unhappy with pottery.