Staffordshire Blue White Pottery - History Types Patterns Makers Marks..../ Book

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Profusely illustrated with 119 black-and-white photographs with in-depth captions, this text provides an in-depth definitive study of Staffordshire blue and white pottery and porcelain.
STAFFORDSHIRE BLUE – Underglaze Blue Transfer-Printed Earthenware
by W.L. Little, Crown Publishers, NY, 1969.
”Staffordshire Blue was a by-product of the Industrial Revolution. Its history dates from 1780, when the growing wealth of the professional and mercantile classes, coinciding with a large increase in the population, had begun to create a market for a durable kind of colored ware. Until now no work solely devoted to this type of earthenware has existed – certainly nothing so comprehensive and authoritative as this present study.”
“The first part of the book describes the introduction of transfer-printing, the technical development of Staffordshire Blue, the engravings and their sources, and the attributions of wares and their marks; and it concludes with a definitive list of earthenware potters in the period from 1780 to 1850. Since this last section deals in detail with the individual potteries in the West Country, Shropshire, Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Durham, Northumberland and Scotland, the name is seen to be more generic than geographical. The fully annotated illustrations include 108 marks and 119 photographs of specimens selected to show typical products of many of the potters during the 70 years covered by the book. Essential to collectors of Staffordshire Blue, the book will appeal equally to the trans-Atlantic connoisseurs who have always valued the ware on account of its many reproductions of American scenes.”
7.5” x 10” hardback with dust cover in very good condition. 160 pages plus photo plates.
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