CHAPTER VI. 



JOSIAH WEDGWOOD. DID NOT TAKE OUT PATENTS. HIS OWN 

 VIEWS CONCERNING THROWING OPEN THE MANUFACTURE. 

 ENOCH WOOD'S COLLECTION OF POTTERY. INVENTION OF 

 PRINTING ON EARTHENWARE. SADLER AND GREEN, OF 

 LIVERPOOL. NOTICES OF ADAM AND JOHN SADLER, AND 

 OF GUY GREEN. BADNESS OF THE STAFFORDSHIRE ROADS. 

 WARES SENT BY PACK-HORSES TO LIVERPOOL. MR. 



MAYER'S MUSEUM. MR. s. c. HALL'S COLLECTION OF WEDG- 

 WOOD WARE. "QUEEN'S WARE." BURSLEM DIALOGUE. 



So liberal-minded, so open in disposition, so devoid of 

 selfish feelings, and so ready to impart to others the know- 

 ledge he had gained, was Josiah Wedgwood, that in his 

 "Queen's," or "cream-coloured ware," as in most other 

 matters, he did not secure to himself by patent, as almost 

 every other person would have done, his improvements in 

 the manufacture of earthenware ; and thus all the potters in 

 the district immediately, to the utmost of their skill, imitated 

 his ware and his patterns. It is remarkable that of all his 

 inventions only one, and that the least important, was secured 

 to him by patent, as I shall soon have occasion to show. In 

 reference to his Queen's ware, Josiah Wedgwood himself 

 thus writes a few years later on. This remarkable passage 

 I quote from an exceedingly rare paper by himself, in my 

 possession : 



"When Mr. Wedgwood discovered the art of making Queen's 

 ware, which employs ten times more people than all the china works 

 in the kingdom, he did not ask for a patent for this important dis- 

 covery. A patent would greatly have limited its public utility. 

 Instead of one hundred manufactories of Queen's ware there would 



