English Pottery and Porcelain: Being a Concise Account of the Development of the Potter's Art in England : Illust

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Стр. 115 - Trade, he requested me to examine, and report upon the manufactory. Upon witnessing the firing of a kiln at Nantgarw, I found much reason for considering that the body used was too nearly allied to glass, to bear the necessary heat, and observed that nine-tenths of the articles were either shivered, or more or less injured in shape by the firing.
Стр. 39 - Forget me not !' The sailor, tost on stormy seas, Though far his bark may roam, Still hears a voice in every breeze That wakens thoughts of home. He thinks upon his distant friends, His wife, his humble cot; And from his inmost heart ascends The prayer —
Стр. 69 - The difficulties found in proportioning properly these materials, so as to give exactly the necessary degree of vitrification, and no more, and other niceties with regard to the manipulation, discouraged us from proceeding in this concern, after we had procured a patent for the use of our materials, and expended on it between two and three thousand pounds. We then sold our interest to Mr. Champion, of Bristol.
Стр. 49 - He hath also caused to be modelled statues or figures of the said transparent earth (a thing not done elsewhere, for China affords us only imperfect mouldings), which he hath diversified with great variety of colours, making them of the colour of iron, copper, brass, and party-coloured, as some Achat stones.
Стр. 122 - Jacob Warburton, of Hot Lane ; William Clowes, of Port Hill ; and Charles Bagnall, of Shelton.
Стр. 128 - WOOD CARVING FOR AMATEURS: Containing Descriptions of all the requisite Tools, and full Instructions for their use in producing different varieties of Carvings. Illustrated. In paper, price Is., by post, Is. Id.
Стр. 91 - Up led by thee Into the heaven of heavens I have presumed, An earthly guest, and drawn empyreal air, Thy tempering; with like safety guided down Return me to my native element: Lest from this flying steed unreined, (as once Bellerophon, though from a lower clime) Dismounted, on the Aleian field I fall Erroneous there to wander and forlorn.
Стр. 33 - Printed, or Ornamented with Gold to any Pattern ; also with Coats of Arms, Cyphers, Landscapes, etc., Leeds, 1783.
Стр. 114 - My friend Sir Joseph Banks informed me that two persons, named Walker and Beely" (a corruption of Billingsley), "had sent to Government, from a small manufactory at Nantgarw (ten or twelve miles north of Cardiff), a specimen of beautiful china, with a petition for their patronage, and that, as one of the Board of Trade, he requested me to examine and report upon that manufactory.
Стр. 128 - BREAKING AND TRAINING DOGS: Being Concise Directions for the proper Education, both for the Field and as Companions, of Retrievers, Pointers, Setters, Spaniels, Terriers, &c. By

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