The Clay Industries, Including the Fictile & Ceramic Arts on the Banks of the Severn / with notices of the early use of Shropshire clays, the history of pottery, porcelain, &c. in the district

Transcribed from the 1877 Salopian and West-Midland Office edition by David Price.
WITH NOTICES OF THE
Early Use of SHROPSHIRE CLAYS, the History of POTTERY, PORCELAIN, &c., in the District.
JOHN RANDALL, F.G.S.,
Author of
‘The Severn Valley,’ ‘Old Sports and Sportsmen,’ ‘Life of Captain Webb,’ ‘John Wilkinson,’ &c.
MADELEY, SALOP:
Printed and Published at the Salopian and West-Midland Office.
1877.
TO Alexander H. Brown, Esq., M.P.
Sir,
The following treatise on the “Clay Industries” of the Borough you represent may scarcely appear at first sight of that importance to warrant the usual form of a dedication, and I confess I cannot but wish, for present purposes, that its merits were more commensurate with the object. As a large number of your constituents however are engaged in these various branches of trade—in one of which you too have more than a general interest, and as I have been at some trouble to collect facts bearing upon their general history, the work itself may not be without some value.