[PREFACE TO FOURTH EDITION]
A certain amount of necessary revision has been given to the volume.
The prices obtained at public auction for representative examples have been brought up to date, and ten new illustrations have been added.
ARTHUR HAYDEN.
September, 1920.
[PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION]
This edition has been slightly revised and corrected. Throughout the volume many new illustrations appear in place of those in the first edition, and their selection has been made in order to show more clearly the characteristics of the china as dealt with in the letterpress.
In addition to these, twenty new illustrations have been added, and I have to acknowledge my indebtedness to Messrs. Wedgwood & Sons, by whose courtesy I am enabled to reproduce examples from their museum at Etruria, and fine examples after Flaxman, including specimens of dinner-ware which are now being manufactured by the firm from the old designs by that artist.