. The Wedgwoods: being a life of Josiah Wedgwood; with notices of his works and their productions, memoirs of the Wedgwood and other families, and a history of the early potteries of Staffordshire. 1812, when the bone paste, which had been gradually making-its way in the distritc, finally superseded it, and the company. continued their works on the newer system. In 1825, theentire stock of the concern, which had for a short time been Wedgwoods cornish clay and stone mines. 263 carried on for the firm by a person named Tittensor, wassold off, and the manufacture of china, of any description,ent
. The Wedgwoods: being a life of Josiah Wedgwood; with notices of his works and their productions, memoirs of the Wedgwood and other families, and a history of the early potteries of Staffordshire. 1812, when the bone paste, which had been gradually making-its way in the distritc, finally superseded it, and the company. continued their works on the newer system. In 1825, theentire stock of the concern, which had for a short time been Wedgwoods cornish clay and stone mines. 263 carried on for the firm by a person named Tittensor, wassold off, and the manufacture of china, of any description,entirely ceased at New The engravings on the pre-ceding page show some of the hard paste china made atthese works, from examples principally in my own collec-tion. Thus, the introduction of the manufacture of chinaware—a manufacture which has gTOwn and increased to anenormous extent in the district—into Staffordshire, wasmade mainly through the exertions of Josiah Wedgwood,in throwing open the use of the raw materials from Devon-shire and Cornwall. As soon as the use of these materials,the Cornish clay and Cornish stone, was, by Act of Parlia-ment, on the concession of Champion, thrown open to themanufacturers of earthenware, Wedgwood availed himself ofthe fruit of his opposition by immediately entering
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