Antique English Pottery - History Types Makers / In-Depth Illustrated Book

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Given 700 monochrome and 62 full color photographs with identifying captions,  this early out-of-print book will assist the reader in identifying the various types and makers of antique English pottery.  One of the most comprehensive books ever published on the subject, this text is an invaluable resource reference work.
A COLLECTOR’S HISTORY OF ENGLISH POTTERY
by Griselda Lewis, Antique Collector’s Club, England, 1969/1992.
This text is comprehensive in historical scope, treating English pottery from the Stone Age to the 20th century.  The author “has avoided the usual over-emphasis on rare museum pieces, and she describes a large number of lesser pieces still to be found by enterprising amateurs….[She] includes descriptions of early British pottery, Delftware and slipware, salt-glazed stoneware and Astbury and Whieldon ware.  The author discusses and illustrates the work of the Wood family of Burslem, the cream-colored earthenware of the eighteenth century, Castleford ware and ‘stone china’, the underglaze colored ware of Pratt, and the enameled figures of Walton and Sherratt.  She also details a wide sample of popular nineteenth century ware.  The clear identifications and crisp descriptions, accompanied by 372 illustrations, many in color, will be of great value to the collector and student.”
This in-depth book covers by chapter:  Early Pottery in England; Slipware; Delftware; Stoneware 1672-1900; Salt-Glazed Stoneware; Lead-Glazed Red Earthenware; The Wood Family of Buslem; Josiah Wedgwood 1730-95; Cream-Colored Earthenware; Pearl Ware; Stone China; Josiah Spode and Early Transfer Printing; Nineteenth Century Transfer Printed Wares; Lustre Decorated Earthenware; Pratt Ware; White Felspathic Stoneware; Nineteenth Century White and Colored Stoneware Jugs c. 1835-70; Enamel Colored Figures; Victorian Cottage Pots and Portrait Figures; Multi-Colored Transfer Decorated Pot-Lids and Other Ware; Some Factory Made Peasant Wares; Decorative Victorian Tiles; Artist Potters and Art Pottery; Some Country Potteries; The Modern Artist Potter; Factory Made Pottery 1920-85; Bibliography; and  Index.
8.6” x 11” hardback with dust cover in very good+ condition.  360 pages.
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