150 THE WEDGWOODS. 



fine examples of their art, some of which, bearing their 

 names as engravers or enamellers, are still in existence. 

 Josiah Wedgwood, always alive to everything which could 

 tend to improve or render more commercial the productions 

 of his manufactory, although at first opposed to the intro- 

 duction of this invention, as being, in his opinion, an unsa- 

 tisfactory and unprofitable substitute for painting, eventually 

 determined to adopt the new style of ornamentation, and 

 arranged with the inventors to decorate such of his Queen's 

 ware as it would be applicable to, by their process. 



The work was a troublesome one, and in the then state of 

 the roads for it must be remembered that this was before 

 the time even of canals in the district, much less of railroads 

 the communication between Burslem and Liverpool was 

 one of great difficulty. Wedgwood, however, overcame it, 

 and having made the plain body at his works, packed it in 

 waggons and carts, and, I believe, even in the panniers of 

 pack-horses, and sent it to Liverpool, where it was printed 

 by Sadler and Green, and returned to him by the same con- 

 veyance, to be, in most cases, finished in his own works. 



Adam Sadler died on the 7th of October, 1788, aged 

 eighty-three, and his son John Sadler the 10th of December, 

 1 789, aged sixty-nine, and they were buried at Sefton. Mr. 

 Guy Green continued the business after this date, and 

 printed earthenware for Wedgwood, probably some special 

 patterns only, until as late a date as 1793 or 1794. Examples 

 of Liverpool pottery printed by Sadler and Green, and of 

 Wedgwood's body printed by them, are of uncommon occur- 

 rence. In Mr. Mayer's museum, at Liverpool, the best, and 

 indeed only series worthj^ the name in existence, are to be 

 found. In my own possession, too, are some examples. 



Specimens of these early printed goods, bearing Wedg- 

 wood's mark, are rare. I select, as an example, a curious 

 teapot, in the possession of Mr. S. C. Hall, F.S.A., which 

 is highly characteristic and interesting. 



The teapot bears on one side a remarkably well engraved 

 and sharply printed representation of the quaint subject of 



