Re: Random pottery questions and answers thread!

by **big ed** September 11th 2011, 1:34 pm

Oh what the heck I just emailed him , will wait for reply .

by **Potty** September 11th 2011, 1:52 pm

To be honest it would probably help his sales if anything. I like to read a bit from a book to make my mind up if it's worth buying, hard to do when buying online usually.

by **big ed** September 11th 2011, 1:56 pm

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/British-Studio-Ceramics-Book-Paul-Rice-HB-NEW-GDN-/330610556379?pt=Non_Fiction&hash=item4cf9ecbddb

it's widely available on ebay, a very good book IMO

by **Potty** September 11th 2011, 2:37 pm

Had a read up on amazon, looks like a very good book Most Excellent

by **big ed** September 11th 2011, 5:25 pm

Potty it is a really good book , great pics and plenty to read , also a few potters marks , well worth having imo.

by **Potty** September 11th 2011, 7:13 pm

Thanks :)

by **studio-pots** September 11th 2011, 8:37 pm

It is by far the best book for anyone who wants to know who the most important studio potters in Britain were during the 20th century and to give sufficent information for you to be able to identify a pot by one of them should you come across it.

As with any book, you might wish to add and subtract one or two names but that will always be the case.

by **big ed** September 11th 2011, 8:51 pm

Spot on SP , Excellent

by **Potty** September 12th 2011, 12:53 pm

Ordered

From the sample pages on Amazon, looks like it is exactly what I was after. Basically I wanted Yates Owen with the not so good / not so popular makers cropped out and more info (and marks) on the remaining potters.

Play seems to be the cheapest place to order it at the moment. Cost me £20.71

by **Potty** September 12th 2011, 12:53 pm

*£20.73 Delivered.

by **studio-pots** September 12th 2011, 1:48 pm

When it first came out I used to buy it wholesale to resell and the wholesale price to me then was £19.46 per copy so it is a bargain.

by **Potty** September 12th 2011, 3:00 pm

Did they sell well? Happy

I would have thought in a studio pottery gallery it would do really well.

Most good books are around £35-40 it seems, so by comparison, should be a good buy. Guess this had a retail of around £40 when it came out?

by **studio-pots** September 12th 2011, 3:30 pm

The rrp was £29.95 in 2002 and I sold around 25 copies. I could have sold more but once most of my customers who wanted a copy had one I stopped getting it in.

by **big ed** September 12th 2011, 3:31 pm

I paid £25 for mine and that was at a fair , so you done good Excellent

by **Potty** September 12th 2011, 3:55 pm

by **Potty** September 14th 2011, 7:22 pm

Arrived today, so far so good, looks like it will be one of / the best book I have on studio pottery.

by **dantheman** September 14th 2011, 7:25 pm

good I'll order mine now

by **Potty** September 14th 2011, 7:32 pm

£20.73 well spent in terms of pottery books, in my opinion Happy

by **Davee** September 14th 2011, 7:45 pm

If you're looking for the more technical stuff, i.e techniques, glazing etc. Try trawling the charity shops i've picked up some good buys that are a mine of info, l recently picked up 'Illustrated Dictionary of Practical Pottery' by Robert Fournier for 50p. Its packed with everthing you could ever want to know. Another good one I have is 'Ceramics A Potters Handbook' by Glenn C Nelson it was published in the 60's and features lots of examples of contempory studio pottery.

by **studio-pots** September 14th 2011, 8:01 pm

An "old" favorite of mine is Practical Pottery and Ceramics by Kenneth Clark - published in the 1960s by Studio Vista.

by **Davee** September 14th 2011, 8:14 pm

I have The Potter's Manual by Kenneth Clark published in the 90's.

by **Potty** September 14th 2011, 8:26 pm

Will at some point see if I can borrow some of those from the local library, thanks.

by **Potty** September 23rd 2011, 12:47 am

Just got to chapter 9, very good so far.

Did you order yours Dan?

by **dantheman** September 23rd 2011, 11:56 am

not yet

by **Potty** October 13th 2011, 11:05 pm

Does anyone happen to have the book "Denby Stonewares: A Collector's Guide" please?

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