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PREFACE. 
foundations of a fine Collection were got together in the York 
Museum. This has regularly been added to, both by gift and 
purchase, until at the present time we possess a series of Yorkshire 
Pottery which will be very bad to beat, if indeed it can be 
equalled elsewhere. 
Mr. Thomas Boynton himself is the owner of a magnificent 
Collection, and I gratefully acknowledge his unvarying kindness 
and assistance to me when 1 was but a raw amateur. Mr. Arthur 
Hurst, York, also possesses a very fine Collection of Yorkshire 
Pottery ; he has been a most generous donor to ours, and I am 
indebted to him for much help and advice in this particular branch 
of my studies. 
Mr. Richard Wilson, of Armley, Leeds, has the best Collection 
of Leeds Ware in existence, and he has most kindly allowed me 
to thoroughly examine his treasures. 
I must also express my best thanks to Mr. Bowman Heald, of 
the Kilnhurst Pottery, and to Mr Nicholas Taylor, late of the 
Denholme Pottery, for much historical information concerning 
the various potteries in their districts ; to Dr. Maud Sellers who 
wrote the article on “Yorkshire Pottery” for the Victoria County 
History ; to Mr. J. R. Trifhtt, York, who has kindly presented us 
with several pieces from his own Collection; to the late Mr. 
Riley, Bramley, nr. Leeds ; to Mr. William Cooper, Aislaby Hall, 
Pickering; to Dr. Kirk, Hungate Hall, Pickering; to Archdeacon 
H. Armstrong Hall; to Mr. Baker Hudson, the Dorman Memorial 
Museum, Middlesbrough; to Mr. R. Bond, Burmantofts Works; 
to Mr. T. Coates,. Burton-in-Lonsdale; to Mr. Sidney Hawley, 
Rotherham ; to Mr. P. Crossley, Commondale Works ; to Mr. P. 
Graham, Clarence Potteries, Norton, Stockton-on-Tees ; to Mr. 
H. Armstrong, Stockton ; and many others who have so kindly 
assisted me in my labours, and last but by no means least, my best 
thanks are due to Mr. William Watson, the Museum, York, for 
the great care and trouble he has taken in preparing most of the 
excellent photographs with which this paper is illustrated. 
