References
Entries in bold type indicate major sources. Some references, quoted in text, are not listed here.
Abbreviations: Bristol Reference Library - BRL, Bristol Record Office - BRO, Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society Transactions - BGAS, Bristol and Avon Archaeological Society - BAAS.
Bristol Potteries
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Two Centuries of Ceramic Art in Bristol. Hugh Owen. Bell and Daldry, London, 1873. |
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Old Bristol Potteries. W J Pountney. 1920. Reprinted by EP Publishing in 1972. The chapter on Lowdin's China House was previously published in the Burlington magazine for April 1918 (BRL B11582). |
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Bristol Biscuit Plaques. Wallace Elliot. English Ceramic Circle Transactions, number 1, 1933; and A Bristol Plaque with the Arms of Champion. Same author. English Ceramic Circle Transactions, number 2, 1934. |
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The Bristol Clay Tobacco-Pipe Industry. Iain C Walker. City Museum Bristol, 1971. |
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Bristol Clay Pipes. R G Jackson and R H Price. Bristol City Museum, 1974. |
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Avon Bottle Club magazine. 1-6, 1978-9. BRL 29097. |
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Bristol Clay Pipe Makers. Roger Price, Reg and Philomena Jackson. Privately published in 1979 (available in the BRO and BRL). Roger Price is currently preparing a revised edition, to be called Bristol Pipemaking Families. |
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Magnus Lundberg and the Redcliff Back Pottery, Bristol. R G and P Jackson. Privately published by the authors in 1979. |
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Cleo Witt. Good Cream Color Ware - The Bristol Pottery 1786-1968. The Connoisseur, Vol 202, No. 811, September 1979. |
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Wales and the Bristol Clay Pipe Trade. Roger Price, R and P Jackson. Bulletin of the Welsh Medieval Pottery Research Group, No. 3, 1980. |
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Journal of Ceramic History No. 12, Bristol Potters and Potteries 1660-1800. Reg and Philomena Jackson with Roger Price. Stoke-on-Trent City Museums, 1982. |
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The Ring Family of Bristol - Clay Tobacco Pipe Manufacturers (research paper). Roger Price, Reg and Philomena Jackson. 1982. |
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Elton Ware. Malcolm Haslam. Richard Dennis, Ilminster, Somerset, 1989. |
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Pountneys - The Bristol Pottery at Fishponds. Sarah Levitt. Redcliffe Press Ltd., Bristol, 1990. |
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Llanelly Pottery. Gareth Hughes and Robert Pugh. Llanelli Borough Council, 1990. Contains a chapter on the Bristol pottery painter Samuel Shufflebotham. |
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Bristol Potters 1775-1906. R K Henrywood. Redcliffe Press Ltd., Bristol, 1992. |
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Prices of Bristol - The Owners and the Pottery. Tim R Newell Price. The Bristol Templar 1992. |
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Bristol - the First Pipemakers. Roger Price. Society for Clay Pipe Research 68, 2005. |
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Lund's Bristol and Early Worcester Porcelain 1750-58. Simon Spero. 2005. |
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Pottery Production in Westbury-on-Trymn during the late 17th and 18th centuries. Reg Jackson. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 123 (2005). |
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Bristol Pottery 1784-1972. John Carson. Authors Online. 2008. |
Delftware
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Blue Dash Chargers. Edward A Downman. London 1919. |
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English Delft Pottery. R G Munday. London 1928. |
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain. Bernard Rackham. First published in 1935. This edition was published, in two volumes, by the Antique Collectors' Club in 1987. |
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Wincanton Delftware. L L Lipski. English Ceramic Circle transactions, volume 4, part 1, 1957. |
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English Delftware Pottery in the Robert Hall Warren Collection. Anthony Ray. Faber and Faber, London, 1968. |
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Dutch Tiles. C H de Jonge. Praeger, New York, 1971. |
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English Delftware Tiles. Anthony Ray. Faber and Faber, London, 1973. |
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English Delftware. Micheal Archer. Rijksmuseum exhibition, Amsterdam, 1974. |
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English Delftware. F H Garner and Michael Archer. Faber and Faber, London, 1974. |
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Fair as China Dishes. Michael Archer and Brian Morgan. International Exhibition Foundation, USA, 1977. |
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The Lipski Collection of English and Irish Delftware sold at Sotheby's. Part 1 - 10th March 1981, Part 2 - 17th November 1981, Part 3 - 1st March 1983, and Part 4 - 6th December 1983. |
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English Delftware in the Bristol Collection. Frank Britton. Sotheby Publications, London, 1982. |
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Dated English Delftware. L L Lipski and Michael Archer. Sotheby Publications, London, 1984. |
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Christie's Pictorial History of European Pottery. Hugo Morley-Fletcher and Roger McIlroy. Phaidon-Christie's Limited, Oxford, 1984. |
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Delftfield a Glasgow Pottery. Jonathon Kinghorn. Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries, 1986. |
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London Delftware. Frank Britton, Jonathon Horne Publications, London, 1987. |
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English Tin-Glazed Tiles. Jonathon Horne. Jonathon Horne Publications, London, 1989. |
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Bristol On Display. Thesis by Susan Hill Dolan, 1993. |
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Liverpool Printed Tiles. Anthony Ray. Jonathon Horne Publications, London, 1994. |
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British Delft at Williamsburg. John C Austin. Jonathon Horne Publications, London, 1994. |
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Delftware. Micheal Archer. V & A Catalogue. HMSO, London,1997. |
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The Dutch Tile 1570-1930. Jan Pluis. Leiden, 1998. |
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Irish Delftware. Peter Francis. Jonathon Horne Publications, London, 2000. |
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The Longridge Collection of Delftware and Slipware. Volume 2 - Delftware. Leslie Grigsby. Jonathon Horne Publications, London, 2000. |
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British Tin-Glazed Earthenware. John Black. Shire Publications, 2001. |
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Delftware at Historic Deerfield 1600-1800. Amanda E Lange. Deerfield, Massachusetts, 2001. |
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Jonathan Horne. Tin-Glazed Tile Production in the British Isles. Antique Collectors' Club. March 2004. |
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London's Delftware Industry. Kieron Dyer, Ian Betts and Roy Stephenson. Museum of London Archaeology Service, 2008. |
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A Delftware Kiln in Wincanton. Hamish Hamish Cole. English Ceramic Circle Transactions, volume 20, part 2, 2008. |
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English & Irish Delftware. Aileen Dawson . British Museum, 2010. |
Plymouth and Bristol Porcelain
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William Cookworthy and the Plymouth China Factory. R N Worth. Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art. 1876. |
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William Cookworthy. Theodore Compton. Hicks, London, 1895. |
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The Trapnell Collection of Plymouth and Bristol Porcelain. Albert Amor, London, 1912. |
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Bristol Porcelain. Frank Hurlbutt. The Medici Society, 1928. |
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The Fry Collection of Bristol Porcelain. Mrs Willoughby Hodgson. The Connoisseur (date unknown). |
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The Artistic Content of Cookworthy's and Champion's Porcelain. F Severne MacKenna. English Ceramic Circle transactions, volume 2, part 9, 1946. |
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Cookworthy's Plymouth and Bristol Porcelain. F Severne MacKenna. F Lewis, 1946. |
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Champion's Bristol Porcelain. F Severne MacKenna. F Lewis, 1947. |
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A J Toppin. The Proprietors of the Early Bristol,China Factory: Indentified as William Miller and Benjamin Lund. English Ceramic Circle transactions, volume 3, part 3, 1954. |
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William Cookworthy 1705-1780. A commemorative exhibition of his Plymouth and Bristol Porcelain. City Art Gallery Plymouth 1955. |
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William Stephens, Bristol China Painter. F Severne MacKenna. English Ceramic Circle Transactions, volume 4, part 1, 1957. |
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English Blue and White Porcelain of the 18th Century. Bernard M Watney. Faber and Faber, 1963. |
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Worcester Porcelain and Lund's Bristol. Franklin A Barret. Faber and Faber, 1966. |
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Bristol Porcelain Bicentenary Exhibition. Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, 1970. |
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William Cookworthy 1705-1780. John Penderil-Church. Bradford Barton, Truro, 1972. |
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The Indeo Pottery at Bovey Tracey. Norman Stretton. English Ceramic Circle Transactions, volume 8, part 2, 1972. |
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The F S MacKenna Collection of English Porcelain. Part 3 - Plymouth and Bristol. F S MacKenna. F Lewis, 1975. |
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Cookworthy 'a man of no common clay'. A Douglas Selleck. Baron Jay, Plymouth, 1978. |
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The Plymouth Porcelain Factory Letters to Thomas Pitt. Geoffrey Wills. Canterbury Ceramic Circle 1998. Reprinted from the Apollo Magazine of 1980 and 1981. |
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Antique Porcelain. John Sandon. Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, 1997. |
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Lund's Bristol and Early Worcester Porcelain. A loan collection at the Bristol Art Gallery. Simon Spero. Reprinted from the June 1997 issue of The Antique Dealer & Collectors Guide. |
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A Curious Odyssey: a Vauxhall Workman and and some dated pieces. Roger Massey. English Ceramic Circle Transactions, volume 16, part 3, 1998. |
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The Location of the Plymouth Factory, Part 1. Colin Hanley. Nicholas Crisp at Bovey Tracey and Bovey Tracey Potteries revisited. Roger Massey. English Ceramics in National Trust Houses. Anthony du Boulay. English Ceramic Circle Transactions, Volume 18, part 1, 2002 |
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The origins of Lund's Bristol porcelian and the site of the Bristol manufactory. Ray Jones. Northern Ceramic Society Journal 23, 2006-7. |
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Plymouth porcelain records in the Board of Admiralty papers. Jane Brown. Northern Ceramic Society Journal 23, 2006-7. |
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Richard Champion of Bristol - Merchant and Porcelain Manufacturer. Rod Dowling. English Ceramic Circle Transactions, volume 20, part 2, 2008. The George III plaque is not of the king. Does anyone know who it is? The article also mentionsa Miss Players service, it is unlikely that this was made in Bristol. |
Other Porcelain and Pottery
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The Ladies Amusement. Robert Sayer. 1762 edition, reprinted in 1959. |
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Ceramic Art of Great Britain. L L Jewitt. 1883 edition. Reprinted by Paul P B Minet, Chicheley, 1971. |
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The Early Derby Ceramic Artists. The Brothers Brewer 1764-1820. W H Tapp, privately published, 1932. |
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European Ceramic Art. W B Honey. Faber and Faber, London, 1952. |
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An Illustrated Enclyclopaedia of Bristish Pottery and Porcelain. Geoffrey Godden. Barrie & Jenkins, London, 1966. |
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Minton Pottery & Porcelain of the First Period. Geoffrey Godden. Herbert Jenkins, London, 1968. |
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New Hall and Its Imitators. David Houlgate. The Collectors Book Club, Circencester, 1973 (reprint of Faber and Faber, 1971). |
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The Illustrated Guide to Staffordshire Salt-Glazed Stoneware. Arnold R Mountford. Barrie & Jenkins, London, 1971. |
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The Pomona Potworks, Newcastle, Staffs, 1745-8. Paul Bemrose. English Ceramic Circle Transactions, Volume 9, Part 1, 1973. |
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Royal Worcester Porcelain. Henry Sandon. Clarkson N Potter Inc., New York, 1973. |
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Tin-Glazed Pottery in Europe and the Islamic World. Alan Craiger-Smith. Faber and Faber, London, 1973. |
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Journal of Ceramic History No. 6, London Potters circa 1570-1710. Rhoda Edwards. George Street Press, Stafford, 1974. |
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Creamware and Other Pottery at Temple Newsam House Leeds. Peter Walton. Manningham Press, Bradford and London, 1976. |
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Creamware. Donald Towner. Faber and Faber, London , 1978. |
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Chamberlain-Worcester Porcelain 1788-1852. Geoffrey A Godden. Barie & Jenkins, London, 1982. |
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English Brown Stoneware 1670-1900. A Oswald, R J C Hildyard and R C Hughes. Faber and Faber, London, 1982. |
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The Dictionary of Blue & White Printed Pottery. A W Coysh & R K Henrywood. Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, 1982. |
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Collard the Honiton & Dorset Potter. Carol & Chris Cashmore, 1983. |
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Wemyss Ware a Decorative Scottish Pottery. P Davis and R Rankine. Scottish Academic Press, Edinburg and London, 1986. |
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Browne Muggs. English Brown Stoneware. R Hildyard. V & A. 1987. |
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Medieval Pottery in Britain AD 900-1600. Michael McCarthy and Catherine Brooks. Leicester University Press 1988. |
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The Rous Lench Collection. Pottery and Porcelain. Part 1, Sotheby's, 1st July 1986. Part 2, Christie's, 29/30th May 1990. |
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British Pottery and Porcelain Marks. Geoffrey Godden. Barrie and Jenkins Limited, London, 1991. |
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Limehouse Ware Revealed. Bernard M Watney, etc. English Ceramic Circle, 1993. |
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A Potwork in Devonshire. Brian Adams and Anthony Thomas. Sayce Publishing, Bovey Tracey, 1996. |
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Coalport 1795-1926. Michael Messenger. Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1995. |
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Liverpool Porcelain of the 18th Century. Bernard M Watney. Richard Dennis, 1997. |
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German Stoneware 1200-1900. David R Gaimster. British Museum, 1997. |
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Isleworth Porcelain. Anton Gabszewicz and Roderick Jellicoe. 1998. |
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Stoneware Bottles 1500-1949. Second edition. Derek Askey. BBR Publishing, 1998. |
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A Collectors's History of English Pottery. Griselda Lewis. Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1999. |
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Cream-colored Earthenware. Griselda Lewis. Antique Collecting Magazine, September 2001. |
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An Exhibition of English Pottery. Garry Atkins, March 2002. |
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Derby Porcelain 1748-1848. John Twitchett. Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2002. |
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Staffordshire Potters. R K Henrywood. Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2002. |
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Aileen Dawson. Article - Collecting German Stoneware. Antique Collectors' Club, Dec 2003. |
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English Blue and White Porcelain. Geoffrey A Godden. Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, 2004. |
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Scottish Sale (Wemyss). Antique Collectors' Club Magazine.  October 2004. |
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Bovey Tracey Potteries, Guide and Marks. Brian Adams. House of Marbles, Bovey Tracey, 2005. |
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A Bovey Tracey Tin-glazed Fuddling Cup. Brian Adams. 2005. |
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Bow Porcelain. Pat Daniels. Resurgat Publishers, Oxford, 2006. |
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Porcelain Sauceboats of the 18th Century. Nicholas Panes. 2009. |
Glass
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Early Glasshouses of Bristol. Frances Buckley. Transactions of the Society of Glass Technology, 1925, volume 9. This contains useful newspaper extracts and it was a major information source for the Bristol Glass book, however it is not a complete record of Bristol glasshouses. |
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Glassmaking in Bristol. A C Powell. . Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society Transactions 47 (1925). Mentions Lund's porcelain works. |
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English, Scottish and Irish Table Glass from the Sixteenth Century to 1820. G B Hughes. Batsford, Lomdon, 1956. |
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Notes on Lowdin's Glasshouse, Redcliff Hill, and on Miller and Lund's Pottery. J E Whitting, 1969. Typed manuscript (BRL B26224). This also applies to porcelain and pottery. It is not reliable. |
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The Story of the Glass Bottle. Edward Meigh. C E Ramsden, Stoke, 1972. |
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English Glass Bottles for the Collector. Geoffrey Wills. John Batholomew, Edinburgh, 1974. |
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The Jacobs of Bristol, Glassmakers to King George III. Z Josephs. BGAS 95 (1977). |
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Bristol Glass. Cleo Witt, Cyril Weeden and Arlene Palmer Schwind. Redcliffe Press, Bristol, 1984. This only gives an incomplete list of glasshouses. |
Bristol General
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The Picture of Bristol. Rev John Evans, 3rd edition, probably 1823. BRL. |
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Bristol. W Hunt. Longmans, London 1887. |
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Edmund Burke's Connection with Bristol. G E Weare. Bristol, 1894. |
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A History of Banking in Bristol, C H Cave, privately published in 1899. BRL B19588. |
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Bristol Charities. T J Manchee. Bristol, 1881. BRL 17259-60. |
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Bristol Privateers and Ships of War. J W Damer Powell. Bristol, 1930. BRL B14411. |
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Marriage Bonds of the Diocese of Bristol 1637- 1700. Elizabeth Ralph (editor). 1952. |
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Bristol Brass. Joan Day. David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1973. |
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Down the 'Mouth - A history of Avonmouth. Ethel Thomas. Privately published in 1981. BRO. |
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Marine Artists of Bristol - Nicholas Pocock and Joseph Walter. Francis Greenacre. Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, 1982. |
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St Anne's Bristol. Evelyn Winchester. White Books, Bristol, 1986. BRL. |
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Captain Woodes Rogers' Voyage Round the World 1708-1711. Donald Jones, Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, Bristol University, 1992. |
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Thomas Goldney's Garden. P K Stembridge. Burleigh Press, Bristol, 1996. |
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The Goldney Famiy - A Bristol Merchant Dynasty. P K Stembridge. Bristol Record Society, 1998. BRL. |
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R R Angerstein's Illustrated Travel Diary, 1753-1755. Industry in England and Wales from a Swedish Perspective. Translated by T and P Berg. Science Museum, London, 2001. |
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The Diary of Sarah Fox (Champion). Edited by Madge Dresser. Bristol Record Society, 2003. |
Primary Sources
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Richard Champion. Letter books BRO 38083/Microfilm 1 and 2, BK/618. Ship Lloyd - BRO 38032. |
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Bristol Port Presentments. A limited record of imports and exports from 1770. BRL. |
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Bristol Directories - Sketchley 1775, Bailey's Bristol and Bath 1783-7, Reed 1792, Matthews 1794-1869, Wright 1870-1935, and Kelly 1897-77. Matthews also published Bristol guides in 1794 and 1819. BRL. Gloucestershire Trade Directories have also been used, they held are in Gloucestershire Archives. |
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Local taxation records - Poor rates, watch rates, land tax, lamp and scavenger rates, pitching and paving rates, etc. Late 17th century to 1878. BRO. |
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Poll Books 1715-1852. BRL and BRO. |
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Goldney Family Pedigree. BRO 33288 (62). |
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Extracts from William Dyer's Diaries. BRL 20095. Restricted access. |
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Felix Farley's Bristol Journal 1752-1853, Sarah Farley's Bristol Journal, Bristol Gazette, Bonner and Middleton's Bristol Journal, Bristol Mirror, plus other Bristol newspapers from 1742. BRL. Not all issues consulted. London newspapers in the London Guildhall Library (soma available online). |
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PCC wills index - available online. National Archive. |
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The sale records of Chamberlain's Worcester factory 1795-1846. Courtesy of the Worcester Museum of Porcelain. |
Archaeology
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H W Maxwell. Recent Excavations in Bristol. ECC Transactions 2/7, 1939. |
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P T Underdown. Burke's Bristol Friends. BGAS 1958, pages 127-150. |
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A Medieval Pottery Kiln at Ham Green, Bristol. Kenneth James Barton. BGAS 80 (1961). |
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Crews Hole Pottery. K Marochan. BGAS 81 (1962). |
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Some evidence for Two Types of Pottery manufactured in Bristol in the early 18th century. Kenneth James Barton. BGAS 82 (1963). |
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Excavation of the Town Wall, Bristol, 1974. R Price and M Ponsford.. Notes Concerning Medieval Bristol Potters. R Price. Bristol Museum and Art Gallery Research Monograph 2, 1979. |
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The Ring Family of Bristol, clay tobacco pipe manufacturers. Roger Price, Reg and Philomena Jackson. Post-Medieval Archaeology 18 (1984), 263-300. |
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Deborah M Olsen. Richard Champion and the Society of Friends. BGAS 1984, pages 173-195. |
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Common types of earthenware found in the Bristol area. G L Good and V J Russet. BAAS, Volume 6, 1987. |
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Tin-glazed earthenware kiln waste from Limekiln Lane Potteries, Bristol. R and P Jackson, I Beckey. Post-Medieval Archaeology 25, 1991. |
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Digging for Early Porcelain. Edited by David Barker and Sam Cole. City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, 1998. |
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The Limehouse Porcelain Manufactory. Kieron Tyler, etc. The Museum of London Archaeology Service, 2000. |
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Two groups of post-medieval pottery kiln waste from Temple Quay, Bristol. Reg Jackson. BAAS 17, 2002. |
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The excavation of a clay tobacco pipe kiln, Temple Quay, Bristol. Peter Insole and Reg Jackson. BAAS 17, 2002. |
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A group of 1850's clay tobacco pipe wasters from Temple Back (Commercial Road), Bristol, Manufactured by R F Ring & Co. Ian Beckey, Mike Baker and Roger Price. BAAS 18, 2003. |
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Pottery Kiln Waste from Temple Back. Roger Price. BAAS 20, 2005. |
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A Group of 1850's Tobbacco-Pipe Wasters from Monk Street, Bristol. Ian Beckey and Roger Price (White's Pottery). BAAS 20, 2005. |
Maps
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Maps and plans of Bristol, from Millerd c1710 onwards, including Roque 1742 and Ashmead 1828. Ordnance Survey maps - Conham 1882, St. George 1883 and others of this period. BRL. |
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1901/2 various Ordnance Survey maps of Bristol. Reproduced by Alan Godfrey Maps. |
A variety of maps are available from Bristol City Council on Know Your Place. |
Fire Insurance Policies
18th century insurance policies survive from both the Sun and Salop fire insurance companies. The former are held in London Metropolitan Archives (MS 11936) and the latter in the Shropshire County Record Office. Extracts, relating to potteries, have been published as follows:
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Sun volumes 74-166 (1745-1766) by E Adams, English Ceramic Circle Transactions, volume 9, part 1. |
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Sun volumes 167-232 (1766-1774) by E Adams, English Ceramic Circle Transactions, volume 10, part 1. |
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Sun volumes 235-300 (1774-1782) by H Blakey, Journal of the Northern Ceramic Circle, volume 9. |
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Sun volumes 301-395 (1782-1793) by H Blakey, Journal of the Northern Ceramic Circle, volume 10. |
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Sun country department 1-104 (1793-1813) by H Blakey, Journal of the Northern Ceramic Circle, volume 3. |
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Salop policy books 1-7 and 9-13 by R Edmundson, Journal of the Northern Ceramic Circle, volume 6. |
A number of ledgers exist in the BRO (37165/1/1-11) for the Sun company, covering the years 1820 to 1866. The volumes for 1835 and 1855-61 are missing, and the first volume (1820-31) is currently unavailable. I have extracts taken from these, which I would be happy to supply to other researchers.