This series of handbooks are intended for the reader who has limited knowledge of the subject, perhaps culled from visits to museums, but who may be encouraged to start a collection of the less expensive pieces. Each volume deals with the subject historicall and - where characters such as Josiah Wedgwood are involved - biographically, and explains the processes of manufacture in simple terms. The reader is told where he may see the rarer pieces, and to help him in idenfitical a list of marks is given were appropriate. In fact each volume covers its subject thoroughly, and John bedford has performed a masterly feat of compression without allowing this fact to impair his fluent and easily assimilated style of writing...