Historical Notices of the Leeds Old Pottery; with a description of its wares together with brief accounts of contemporary potteries in the immediate vicinity, hitherto unnoticed

Notes:

First published in 1892, by J R Kidson, the author. Reprinted 1970 with a new introduction by Peter Walton. The 1892 edition has chapters: 'History of the Pottery' [pp13-29]; 'The pattern books' [pp30-46] being a reprint of the 1794 pattern book 'Designs of sundry items of Queen's or cream-colour'd earthenware ...', 12pp; 'Wares'; 'The marks used by the Pottery'; 'Other local potteries' being short [very often very short] profiles of 'Hunslet Hall or Petty's Pottery' / 'Taylors' Potter' / 'Allisons' Pottery' / 'Russell's Pottery' / 'Marsden's Pottery' / 'Leathley Lane Pottery' / 'Rothwell Pottery' / 'Wibsey Pottery'. Appendices include: 'Letters from J Cartwright Esq' (4), 1783, being transcriptions, sent by Mr J Cartwright of Marnham, Notts, in respect of orders for three punch bowls, [pp133-8]; 'Clays used at the Pottery'; 'Book of pottery receipts published in Leeds'; 'Mr Bond's account of the Leeds Pottery' [pp144-8] being an account reprinted from the 'Yorkshire Archaeological Journal', 1874; 'The building of the Leeds Pottery' being newspaper reports (2) of an incident, 1770