A guide through the Royal Porcelain Works, Worcester, and an epitome of the history of pottery and porcelain with the marks on Worcester porcelain
A guide published in 1878 by the Royal Porcelain Works in Worcester, England, describing its factory rooms and the history of pottery and porcelain for visitors and collectors. The pictures are rotated wood-engraved plates labelled with room names such as the throwing room, the slip house and the gilding room, showing workers seated at benches and long rows of machinery and shelving under skylights. A designer might take from them the orderly industrial interior, dense rows of workstations, and the ruled, hatched line of nineteenth-century engraving.
