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1758 Robert Dossie Handmaid to the Arts
volumes 1 & 2

Lois Roberts, Painted in Blue; Underglaze Blue Painted Earthenwares 1775 to1810

1764 Robert Dossie
Handmaid to the Arts
volmes 1 & 2

James & Charles Whitehead
Design of Sundry Articles 
of Earthenware, 1798

1824 Thomas Lakin
Valuable Receipts for the manufacture of porcelain..

1829-1900 Simeon Shaw
History of the Staffordshire Potteries

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