160 Josiak Wedgwood CHAP. 



Wedgwood got another order from the King for a 

 new Table Service, and was allowed to exhibit it for a 

 month. This improved his reputation and his business. 

 He was not insensible to reputation. To Bentley he 

 said, " Let us make all the Good, Fine, and New things 

 we can ; and so far from being afraid of other people 

 getting our patterns, we should glory in it, throw out 

 all the hints we can, and if possible have all the 

 artists in Europe working after our models. This 

 would be noble, and would suit both our dispositions 

 and sentiments much better than all the narrow, 

 mercenary, selfish trammels. . . . Have you forgotten 

 how our hearts burned within us, when we con- 

 versed upon this subject on our way from Liverpool 

 to Prescot ? We were then persuaded that this 

 open, generous plan would not only be most congenial 

 to our hearts and best feelings, but in all probability 

 might best answer our wishes in pecuniary advan- 

 tages. . . . 



" When the Nobility witness our bestowing so much 

 pains and expense in the improvement of a capital Manu- 

 facture, nay, in creating a new one, and that not for our 

 particular emolument only, but that we generously lay 

 our works open to be imitated by other artists and 

 manufacturers for the good of the community at large ; 

 this would certainly procure us the good will of our 

 best customers, and place us in an advantageous light 

 in the public eye. . . . With respect to Eivalship, we 

 will cast all dread of that behind our back, treat it as a 



