English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840
Pat Halfpenny
August 2006 - Out of Print
The first book of any authority to be written on English earthenware figures since Herbert Read’s Staffordshire Pottery Figures was published in 1929, this volume is an eminently readable account of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century production of popular earthenware figures. Much new information has been unearthed by the author, who is Keeper of Ceramics at the City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent. As the leading authority on Staffordshire porcelain and earthenware she is therefore uniquely qualified to write on the subject, for she has at her fingertips the finest collection of English earthenware to be found anywhere in the world, allied with a wealth of archival material. Illustrated with nearly 500 black and white plates and 90 colour plates this book is now considered the standard reference work and will be essential reading for any collector of these delightful figures.
