White Salt-Glazed Stoneware of the British Isles

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Contents include: 'Early development of white salt-glazed stoneware'; 'Early industrial stonewares'; 'Demand for salt-glazed stoneware'; 'Raw materials'; 'Making the pots'; 'Marketing in Britain and Europe' - London dealers / provincial dealers / exporters / European dealers / potters as customers ' prices and payments; 'English white salt-glazed stoneware for the American market'; 'The collectors'; 'Thirteen potters and the pots they made'; 'Thomas Wedgwood of the Overhouse'; 'Salt-glaze potters' - providing profiles of c125 manufacturers; 'Price lists'; 'Patterns, shapes and tiles'; 'Customers for white salt-glazed stoneware'. The thirteen potters referred to are: William Bourne of Burn of Burslem, c1750; Bovey Tracey Potteries, c1766-1775; Chester White Ware Manufactory, c1757-77; John Fenton & Thomas Hill of Stoke on Trent, 1720-22; William Greatbatch of Fenton, 1762-82; John Dwight, c1673-1703, Lydia Dwight, 1703-09, and Samuel Dwight, 1709-37, of Fulham Pottery, London; Humphrey Palmer of Hanley, 1750-c78;John Platt & Samuel Walker of Rotherham,1766-70William Coles, Cambrian Potter, Swansea, 1767-78; Wedgwood family of Burslem; Thomas Weldon & Josiah Wedgwood of Fenton Vivian, c1750s; Francis Place of Durham and York, c1683-93