Sections are laid out comprehensively to cover advertising, books, ceramics, glass, metalware, pens and writing equipment along with plastics, Bakelite, posters, rock and pop, sporting memorabilia, teddy bears, toys and games and vintage fashion. She is an expert on the BBC ‘s Antiques Roadshow and has co-hosted the popular BBC series The House Detectives, ITV’s Antiques Trail, and Discovery’s It’s Your Bid. I was doing up a house and felt it was really difficult to find out what cornices would have looked like in a house of this period. Lots of people were doing up houses at the time, so I wrote Period Details and, again, the book took off.

But by 1992 the marriage was over – although they maintained a united front for the publishing business. Biographies of designers and factories give the background information you need to help date and value objects, while special ‘Judith Picks’ sections give fascinating background and valuation details for particularly interesting or unusual objects.Judith’s friends looked on, totally bewildered, when she got excited about 18th-century plates, and decorated her flat with piles of ceramics. It is compiled by Judith Miller, world-renowned antiques expert and co-founder of the book, who selects the guide's 8000-plus featured antiques.

The series made the couple a fortune – Martin Miller was nicknamed “the Richard Branson of the antiques world” – and spawned an empire of other standalone Miller guides, to porcelain, silver, Victoriana, and so on. After a spell presenting BBC Two’s The House Detectives (1997-2000), in which she and a panel of experts “descend on ordinary houses to unlock their historical secrets”, she joined BBC One’s Antiques Roadshow in 2007 as an expert on Miscellaneous and Ceramics.She has worked her way through British porcelain and pottery and Chinese porcelain, and now her passion is for 20th-century glass.

She also turned her hand to books on interior design after a chance conversation with a designer friend, Jacqui Small. Ideal for dealers, collectors and auctioneers, it contains 4000 objects, all in full colour with in-depth descriptions. When Martin wanted to focus on property and hotels, Miller’s Publications was sold to Mitchell Beazley, but Judith remained as MD, overseeing the guides. He was then affecting long hair and a moustache, and looked, as one critic put it, like “a black Pekinese had been dropped on his head from a great height”. He was also married, but he left his wife and daughters for his blonde, bright assistant; they married in 1978, and went on to have two daughters.

I was homesick for Scotland so I bought Monart glass, then I got obsessed by Ronald Stennett-Willson’s candlesticks, then Murano birds. In Petworth, Sussex, Martin Miller ran a bed and breakfast while Judith worked as an occupational guidance officer for the Department of Employment. Compiled by Judith Miller, world-renowned antiques expert and co-founder of the book, the guide features more than 8,000 antiques. She is an expert on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow and co-hosts the popular BBC series The House Detectives, ITV's Antiques Trail, and Discovery's It's Your Bid. Miller worked as a consultant to and co-presenter of eight series of The Antiques Trail ( Meridian, HTV and Discovery), run on ITV.

The plates were often broken, but they were a catalyst, inspiring Judith to visit the library to learn more about her finds. Comprehensive sections cover ceramics, furniture, glass, silver and metalwares, jewellery and objets de vertu, clocks and watches, books, Oriental antiques, textiles, toys, decorative arts and Modern Classics. Over the years those who are keen to get rid of their clutter could literally be counting the costs having potentially thrown away a fortune disposing of memorabilia they perhaps thought wasn’t worth keeping. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality.Millions were spent kitting out Chilston with bathrooms, footmen in tails, chambermaids in mop caps and 200 candles blazing each night. Biographies of designers and factories give the background information you need to help date and value objects, while special 'Judith Picks' sections give fascinating background and valuation details for particularly interesting or unusual objects. This year's edition features special sections on tribal art, affordable jewellery and Hornsea ceramics. FINE* Jacket condition: Matching colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper showing a carver chair, a tankard and a decorated plate. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).