The Radical Potter: The Life and Times of Josiah Wedgwood

by Tristram Hunt

Book Overview

From one of Britain's leading historians and the director of the Victoria & Albert Museum, a scintillating biography of Josiah Wedgwood, the celebrated eighteenth-century potter, entrepreneur, and abolitionist

Wedgwood's pottery, such as his celebrated light-blue jasperware, is famous worldwide. Jane Austen bought it and wrote of it in her novels; Empress Catherine II of Russia ordered hundreds of pieces for her palace; British diplomats...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 125012834X
• ISBN13: 9781250128348
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Metropolitan Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.2"