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RR 2015/271 British Studio Potters' Marks (3rd edition) Eric Yates-Owens and Robert Fournier; Edited by James Hazelwood Bloomsbury Academic London and New York 2015 781 pp. ISBN 978 1 4081 8350 2 £60 $90
Keywords Pottery, United Kingdom
Review DOI 10.1108/RR-06-2015-0151
This enlarged third edition of British Studio Potters' Marks is a very welcome addition to our libraries. Ten years since the last edition was published and following the death of one of the original authors, Robert Fournier (1915-2008), Hazlewood has further enhanced this essential library reference tool. Consisting of an alphabetical listing of British potters' marks and images thereof, each entry contains brief biographical detail together with past and present addresses of the potters as well as information about their type of work. Because ceramics is such a tactile medium, this weighty tome is an appropriate and fascinating vehicle for providing details of potters' marks rather than having to check such details in online sites of...