Author: WATKINS, CHRIS; WILLIAM HARVEY; ROBERT SENFT
Title: Shelley Potteries the History and Production of a Straffordshire Family of Potters
Description: London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1980. Hardcover. ISBN: 0091432707. B&W and Color; 9.4 X 6.5 X 0.9 inches; 176 pages; Hard cover is blue with silver. Slight rubbing, scuffing to boards. DJ has rubbing, sunning, 2 small closed tears at top of front cover; in a mylar cover. Pages are clean and tight. Appears as if unused. Illustrated with 16 color plates and 78 b/w pictures. This copy from 1986. 'Shelley Potteries, situated in Staffordshire, was earlier known as Wileman & Co. Which had also traded as The Foley Potteries. The first Shelley to join the company was Joseph Ball Shelley in 1862 and in 1896 his son Percy Shelley became the sole proprietor, after which it remained a Shelley family business until 1966 when it was taken over by Allied English Potteries. Its china and earthenware products were many and varied although the major output was table ware. In the late Victorian period the Art Nouveau style pottery and Intarsio ranges designed by art director Frederick Alfred Rhead were extremely popular but Shelley is probably best known for its fine bone china “Art Deco” ware of the inter-war years and post-war fashionable tea ware. ' Index.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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