British, Pottery Marks. By G. Woolliscroft Rhead. (Scott, Greenwood, and
Co. 7s. 6d. net )—In the text of this compact volume more than twelve hundred marks will be found. These are arranged alphabetically under the names of the potters or of the places where they worked. The marks are not in facsimile, nor have they, in the majority of cases, been taken directly from specimens of the several wares. For all that, the volume will be welcomed by connoisseurs and collectors as an ample repertory of potters' signs and symbols. But it is something more than this, for it contains several interesting descriptive passages, such as those relating to the slip-wares of the Toft School belonging to Dr. Glaisher, F.R.S., and to the productions of John Dwight, of the brothers Elers, and of Nottingham. It should be mentioned that the marks of a very large number of modern potworks are recorded in the pages under review. Some of these belong to quite recent years.
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