English Dry-Bodied Stoneware. Wedgwood and contemporary manufacturers, 1774 to 1830

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Deals especially with the Wedgwoods, notably using records of sales from Wedgwoods' Soho, London, retail showrooms, 1774-94, which had encountered financial difficulties. Chapters include: 'Antecedents of English dry-bodied stoneware'; 'The Wedgwood contribution'; 'Wedgwood red stoneware and brown stoneware'; 'Wedgwood creamware'; 'Wedgwood jasper'; Wedgwood retailers at home' [pp103-4] [ie local retailers / merchants selling Wedgwood products]; 'Wedgwood sales abroad - patrons and connoisseurs'; 'Contemporary manufacturers' [pp110-207] being multiple profiles of competitor manufacturers.