The earliest full history of the Staffordshire pottery district, written by a local man who knew its works and workmen at first hand. Shaw's account of the rise of Wedgwood, Spode, and their neighbours is a primary source for the industrial birth of English ceramics.
Sources for Simeon Shaw — History of the Staffordshire Potteries
Simeon Shaw — History of the Staffordshire Potteries in Ceramic Arts
Held in the Ceramic Arts chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Jennie J. Young — The Ceramic Art (1878)
- Joseph Marryat — A History of Pottery and Porcelain, Medieval and Modern (3rd ed.) (1868)
- Joseph Marryat — Collections Towards a History of Pottery and Porcelain (1st ed.) (1850)
- William Chaffers — The Collector's Handbook to Keramics of the Renaissance and Modern Periods (1909)
- Arthur Hayden — Chats on Old Earthenware (1909)
- Llewellynn Jewitt — The Ceramic Art of Great Britain, Vol. II (1878)
- William Harcourt Hooper — A Manual of Marks on Pottery and Porcelain (1892)
- Edward Dillon — Porcelain (1904)
- W. M. Flinders Petrie — Corpus of Prehistoric Pottery and Palettes (1921)
- Gisela M. A. Richter — The Craft of Athenian Pottery (1923)
- R. L. Hobson — Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, Vol. I (1915)
- R. L. Hobson — Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, Vol. II (1915)
- William Gibb & Bernard Rackham — A Book of Porcelain (1923)
- Mary White — How to Make Pottery (1904)
- George J. Cox — Pottery, for Artists, Craftsmen & Teachers (1914)
- Charles Fergus Binns — The Potter's Craft: A Practical Guide for the Studio and Workshop (2nd ed.) (1922)
- Alfred B. Searle — The Clayworker's Hand-Book (1921)
- Richard Lunn — Pottery: A Hand-Book of Practical Pottery for Art Teachers and Students, Vol. II — Decoration of Pottery (1910)
- John C. L. Sparkes — A Handbook to the Practice of Pottery Painting (1879)
- Eliza Meteyard — The Life of Josiah Wedgwood (1865–1866)