Scottish East Coast Potteries, 1750-1840

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Provides profiles of c13 Scottish businesses largely of the 18th century. The chapters are: 'The Prestonpans Pottery - William Cadell & Co'; 'Account of the Prestonpans Pottery, 20 September 1801 to 27 March 1802'; 'The Prestonpans Pottery (William Cadell & Co) - conclusion'; 'The Prestonpans potters at the Porters' Box Society'; 'The West Pans story - Samuel Lambas, William Littler and others'; 'Hilcote's Pottery - Antony (sic) Hilcote of Morisons Haven and Figgate, and Thomas Hilcote'; 'The Bankfoot Pottery, Prestonpans - William Cadell (nephew); Robert and George Gordon, Charles Belfield'; 'The Musselburgh Pottery - William Reid, Newbigging; J J Forster and Trough'; 'The Belfield Pottery (Charles Belfield & Co)'; 'Portobello - Jameson, Rathbone and others'; 'Scott Brothers - phantom pottery'; 'Fife potteries - Kirkcaldy, Linktown and Gallatoun; Methven, Gray, Paterson and others'; 'Traditional pottery - Aberdeen, Dunmore and others'; 'The Bo'ness Pottery - Dr John Roebuck and others'; 'The Cuttle Pottery, Prestonpans - Adam Cubie'. Six appendices include 'Cadell correspondence relating to exports' - ie exchanged between Cadell and his agents in Britain and abroad, 1760s-1830s - being transcriptions of a few letters [pp170-81]; 'Deliveries of flints' giving some details of flint shipments to Firth of Forth, 1807-23; lists of selected export orders / shipments, notably by William Cadell & Co, c1777-1824