This is A. N. Wilson's first novel for five years that tells the epic story of the Wedgwood dynasty. In 1774, Josiah Wedgwood, master craftsman possessed with a burning scientific vision, embarks upon the thousand piece Frog Service for Catherine the Great. Josiah's nephew Tom journeys to America to buy clay from the Cherokee for this exquisite china. Tom is caught up in the American rebellion, and falls for a Cherokee woman who will come to play a crucial role in Josiah's late, great creation: the Portland Vase. As the ...
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This is A. N. Wilson's first novel for five years that tells the epic story of the Wedgwood dynasty. In 1774, Josiah Wedgwood, master craftsman possessed with a burning scientific vision, embarks upon the thousand piece Frog Service for Catherine the Great. Josiah's nephew Tom journeys to America to buy clay from the Cherokee for this exquisite china. Tom is caught up in the American rebellion, and falls for a Cherokee woman who will come to play a crucial role in Josiah's late, great creation: the Portland Vase. As the family fortune is made, and Josiah's entrepreneurial brilliance creates an empire that will endure for generations, it is his daughter Sukey, future mother of Charles Darwin, who bears clear-eyed witness. A novel of epic scope, rich in warmth, intellect and humanity, "The Potter's Hand" explores the lives and loves of one of Britain's greatest families, whose travails are both ordinary - births, deaths, marriages, opium addiction, depression - and utterly extraordinary. It is suitable for readers of Rose Tremain, A. S. Byatt's "Possession" and "The Children's Book", Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall" and Jenny Uglow's "The Lunar Men".
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1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered dark blue cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine in protective cover, price clipped). Pp. 505 (previous owner's light pencil inscription on half title).
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New. 2001. Main. Paperback. A novel of epic scope, rich in warmth, intellect and humanity, The Potter's Hand explores the lives and loves of one of Britain's greatest families, whose travails are both ordinary-births, deaths, marriages, opium addiction, depression-and utterly extraordinary. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 34. Weight in Grams: 412......We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Large 8vo. pp 502. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered gilt at spine. Signed by the author in German, on the title page, to Lady Marcelle Quinton. ISBN: 1848879512 Fine in fine dust jacket.