THE LOST CITY OF STOKE-ON-TRENT
Written by Matthew Rice
Illustrated by Matthew Rice
Published by Frances Lincoln Limited
in 2010
ISBN: 9780711231399
THE LOST CITY OF STOKE-ON-TRENT
Written by Matthew Rice.
Illustrated by Matthew Rice.
Stock no. 1828996
Circa.
2010.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
A song for Stoke: a fanfare for one of the great cities of the world's first Industrial Revolution. Matthew Rice's detailed - and often funny - architectural watercolours are the basis of this book. Red cloth boards, black title to spine. Colour pictorial endpapers. Colour illustrations. 152 pages including index. ISBN: 9780711231399. Second printing. Top & tail of spine and lower corners lightly rubbed. Top corners of boards lightly bumped. Contents fine. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed at edges.
Front cover
Contents
- Map of Stoke
- The Lost City
- The Buildings of Stoke
- the Potteries
- Wedgwood
- Blue and White
- Tiles
- Stoke in the 1950s
- What Happened to the Potteries
- The Potbanks
- Canal
- Housing
- Municipal Buildings
- churches and Chapels
- Stoke Right Now
- Epilogue at Eastwood
- List of Potteries
- Some Interesting Places to Visit