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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. Some light marking on cover page due to age but pages are excellent and bright. Signed by author. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> This revival of interest particularly in the stoneware produced by Doulton’s and the Martin brothers has been stimulated by recent books and articles on Victorian pottery by television programmes and by a number of specialised exhibitions. As a result these wares have now become “collectable” and have increased in value by ten or twenty times in as many years. However little has been published this century on the many other Art potteries such as Linthorpe and Barnstaple which were equally highly regarded by the connoisseurs of their day. In this book an attempt has therefore been made to present a survey of the more interesting or historically important of the twenty or so firms and studios that were involved in the production of Art pottery during the nineteenth century. There was of course no sudden change in pottery styles on the death of Queen Victoria in 1901 and no excuse is offered for considering the later work of certain firms which continued to make Art wares for some years into the present century. As far as possible I have drawn on original or contemporary material and have visited all the potteries described where they still exist and their successors or their sites when they do not in order to obtain first-hand information on the circumstances surround- ing the production of their wares. For the illustrations I have tried to avoid articles whose photographs have appeared repeatedly in other publications in favour of typical examples of the work of each pottery such as can still be obtained from dealers and sale- rooms. Some museum pieces have inevitably been included; but it should be realised that such specimens usually represent the best work of a pottery rather than its average standard or are unique in some other respect. (SP)