[Rarebooks] FS: So, 'ow was yer day at the Pottery, Will'um?

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TITLE: “Staffordshire Pots & Potters”

By G. Woolliscroft Rhead & Frederick Alfred Rhead.
Published in London by Hutchinson & Co. in 1906.

DISCUSSION: A valuable and interesting stud of the old English potters and
potteries. The authors explain in their Preface- "The main purpose of the
present work is to chronicle the chief triumphs of the Staffordshire
potter's craft, and to make the reader acquainted, as far as may be, with
the personality of the more considerable potters, and the conditions under
which they worked. The book aims at being neither a history (in the
generally accepted sense of the term), a directory, nor a technical
treatise, but a vivd account of the life of the potter and of his
surroundings. It is, further, an attempt to impart the peculiar flavour,
so to speak, of the district, and its local colour, which, so far as the
authors are aware, has not hitherto been made"

In his 1906 review of the book, Solon ("Ceramic Literature") notes- "Both
natives of the potteries, the authors, already known as ceramic artists,
were fully qualified to treat the subject. Very little is left unsaid of
what concerns the past of the local industry, and the masters and men who
have assisted in its development. The present conditions of manufacture,
and the gossiping particulars about the life and work of the modern
artists with whom the writers have been brought in contact is not the
least interesting portion of the volume".

G. Woolliscroft Rhead was a noted author on the subject of old English
ceramics and antiques, and his brother Frederick was the Art Director of
the Brownfield Guild Pottery.

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 8"x10", xvi + 384 pages, 4 color and 64 black &
white plates, line illustrations in the text.

CONDITION NOTES: Some light wear and minor soil, small hole in the cloth
at the front hinge, cloth cracked along the rear hinge, but tight.

PRICE: $85 -

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