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Title(s)
Josiah Wedgwood : a biography / Anthony Burton.
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Published/Created
New York : Stein and Day, [1976]
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Physical Description
239 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Holdings
Reference Library
NK4210 W4 B87 1976 (LC)
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Copyright Status
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Full YALE Library Record
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Classification
Books
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Notes
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (page 231) and index.
The Potteries: the name invokes images of a landscape of brick terraces, rows of back-to-backs from the midst of which the kilns poke up towards a smoke-streaked sky. Here are the Five Towns of Arnold Bennett's novels: here is a world we could, until recently, see for ourselves, but which is now fast disappearing. But is is not the world into which Josiah Wedgood was born in 1730. To attempt to understand that man and his achievements we must first look at an earlier world, one that he helped to change. -- pg. [11]. -
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IIIF Manifest
Preface -- The potter's field -- The early years -- Mr. Wedgwood's works -- Bentley -- The grand trunk -- Expansion -- Artes Etruriae Renascuntur -- Our humble friends -- Developing themes -- Domestic interlude -- Russia and Jasper -- Cornwall -- The children -- End of a partnership -- Wedgwood without Bentley -- Masters and slaves -- End of a career -- The dynasty and its founder.
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