Sh"rter Notice COLLECTORS of the beautiful Nantgarw and Swansea china
will find in this book the most comprehensive and detailed history ever recorded of an English porcelain manufactory. It amplifies and corrects the great monograph by Turner, published in 0197 and I since out of print, and it is likely to remain the most comp authority on its subject. In addition to giving a history of foundation and the various proprietors and methods of the to associated potteries, it tells the full story of that great potter, Will Billingsley, and describes the work of the other artists, Evans, Hen Morris, Thomas Baxter, William Pollard, &c., who were painters this porcelain. Marks, recipes and prices of the whole period a included, and there arc over one hundred and ninety illustrati plates. Mr. R. L. Hobson, formerly Keeper of the Department Ceramics at the British Museum, contributes a foreword.
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