The highly readable text explains andinstructs and is accompanied by a wealth ofinformative illustrations which are drawnwhere possible from pieces which appear onthe open market rather than examples frommuseums.This book will help the reader toacquire a solid background of essentialknowledge which will encourage appreciationand understanding as well as provide thenecessary practical information for collecting.

Griselda Lewis provides a comprehensiveoverview of pottery in England fromearliest times to the late twentieth century.She gives invaluable information on thedistinguishing attributes of the many different styles of pottery manufacture,fromslipware to studio pottery,as well as of thedifferent factories from the well known,suchas Wedgwood,to the lesser known.She alsooffers an overall perspective of thedevelopment of pottery styles and techniquesover the centuries.

The highly readable text explains andinstructs and is accompanied by a wealth ofinformative illustrations which are drawnwhere possible from pieces which appear onthe open market rather than examples frommuseums.This book will help the reader toacquire a solid background of essentialknowledge which will encourage appreciationand understanding as well as provide thenecessary practical information for collecting.

Two features make this book especiallypertinent to today's readers: extra focus isgiven to the pottery of the twentieth century,a growth area as prices of earlier warescontinue to rise,and the comprehensivereading lists which follow each chapterprovide invaluable sources for furtherresearch.There is also a very comprehensiveand up-to-date bibliography.

This is a book which will inspire and,attimes,amuse and should prove to be a realinterest awakener,even to those who are newto the subject.Reviewing the original editionof the work Michael Archer,Deputy KeeperCeramics Department,Victoria and AlbertMuseum,wrote‘It would be hard to find amore original group of illustrations and theyare chosen with a most individual and livelytaste...this book triumphantly succeeds in themost difficult task of all,that of arousingenthusiasm,I unhesitatingly recommend it,whether to open experienced eyes to newdelights or to introduce the newcomer to thepleasures of English pottery.'

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Early pottery in England

Slipware

Tin enamelled earthenware c.1570-1800

Stoneware 1672-1900

Salt-glazed stoneware

Lead-glazed red earthenware

The Wood family of Burslem

Josiah Wedgwood 1730-95

Cream coloured earthenware

Pearl ware

Stone china

Josiah Spode and early transfer printing

Nineteenth century transfer printed wares

Lustre decorated earthenware

Pratt ware c.1780-1840

Multi-coloured transfer decorated pot-lids and other ware

White felspathic stoneware of the late 18th and early 19th centuries

White and coloured stoneware jugs c.1835-70

Some factory made peasant wares

Enamel coloured figures

Victorian cottage pots and portrait figures

Mid-late nineteenth century glazed wares

Decorative Victorian tiles

Artist potters and art pottery

Some country potteries

The modern artist potter

Factory made pottery 1920-98

Bibliography

Index of subjects from museum collections

Index