English cream-coloured earthenware
1957, First Edition. London : Faber and Faber. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #441749
Physical description; xv, 107 pages illustrations, 100 plates (some color) 26 cm. Notes; Illus. incl. plates (4 col.) and facsimiles of marks. Includes bibliographical references (page 101). Contents; Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Pioneers: -- Enoch Booth -- Thomas Whieldon -- John and Ane Warburton -- 3. Cockpit Hill, Derby -- 4. The Leeds pottery -- Glazes -- Forms and details -- Enamelling -- Creamware decorated with underglaze colours -- Transfer-printing -- Pierced decoration -- Figures -- Late wares -- Pattern and drawing books -- Marks -- 5. William Greatbatch -- 6. Josiah Wedgwood -- Glazes -- Forms and details -- Enamelling -- Transfer-printing -- Later ware -- Lattern books -- Figures -- Marks -- 7. Swinton and the later Yorkshire factories -- Swinton -- Don pottery -- Castleford -- Rothwell -- Petty's pottery, Holbeck Moor -- Ferrybridge -- Stafford pottery, Stockton-on-Tees -- Belle vue Pottery, Hull -- Swillington Bridge -- 8. The later Staffordshire potteries -- Neal and Co., Hanley -- John ner of Lane End -- Elijah Mayer, Hanley -- The Wood family of Burslem -- Shorthose and Heath -- William Davis -- John Davenport of Longport -- Josiah Spode -- John and George Rogers of Dale Hall -- Lakin and Poole -- Herbert Minton -- 9. Liverpool, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Sunderland, Bristol and Swansea -- Liverpool -- Herculaneum -- Newcastle-upon-Tyne -- Sunderland -- Bristol -- Swansea -- 10. Continental creamware -- Appendix I. Handles, spouts and knobs, plates I-VI -- Appendix II. Pattern and drawing books, plates VII-IX -- Appendix III. Marks. Subjects; Pottery, English. Creamware England. Eighteenth century. Ceramics. Creamware. Porcelain, English. Leeds Pottery.
Price: €14.95