[Illustration: _Llewellyn Jewitt_ (signature)] _From a bust by W. H. Goss._] THE CERAMIC ART OF GREAT BRITAIN FROM PRE-HISTORIC TIMES DOWN TO THE PRESENT DAY BEING A HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT AND MODERN POTTERY AND PORCELAIN WORKS OF THE KINGDOM AND OF THEIR PRODUCTIONS OF EVERY CLASS BY LLEWELLYNN JEWITT, F.S.A. LOCAL SECRETARY OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF LONDON; HON. AND ACTUAL MEMBER OF THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL ARCHÆOLOGICAL COMMISSION, AND STATISTICAL COMMITTEE, PSKOV; MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ARCHÆOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND; ASSOCIATE OF THE BRITISH ARCHÆOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION; HON. MEMBER OF THE ESSEX ARCHÆOLOGICAL SOCIETY AND OF THE MANX SOCIETY, ETC.; COR. MEMBER OF THE ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY, ETC. ETC. ETC. _ILLUSTRATED WITH NEARLY TWO THOUSAND ENGRAVINGS_ IN TWO VOLUMES.--I. LONDON VIRTUE AND CO., LIMITED, 26, IVY LANE PATERNOSTER ROW 1878 [_All rights reserved._] LONDON: PRINTED BY VIRTUE AND CO., LIMITED, CITY ROAD. TO COLIN MINTON CAMPBELL, ESQ. M.P. FOR NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE, ETC. ETC., THIS WORK, WHICH TREATS OF AN ART FOR WHOSE DEVELOPMENT AND EXTENSION HE AND THE FIRM OF MINTON (OF WHICH HE IS NOW THE HEAD) HAVE DONE SO MUCH, IS APPROPRIATELY AND WITH PERMISSION Dedicated, AS A MARK OF HIGH PERSONAL ESTEEM, AND AS A SLIGHT TOKEN OF APPRECIATION OF THE EMINENT SERVICES HE HAS UNIFORMLY RENDERED TO THAT IMPORTANT BRANCH OF ART-MANUFACTURE WITH WHICH HIS NAME IS SO INTIMATELY AND SO WORTHILY ASSOCIATED. LLEWELLYNN JEWITT. WINSTER HALL, DERBYSHIRE, _November, 1877_. INTRODUCTION.