Korting The English country pottery: Its history and techniques – Peter C. D Brears

The history of handmade earthen-wares and the techniques used in making them are absorbing subjects for the collector and for anyone interested in local industries past and present. Many local potteries still produce goods for a local market-even using local materials. The growth and decline of the many craft potteries that have operated in England from medieval times until today are here discussed, and a full picture of the development of the pottery industry and of its techniques over the last 500 years e…