📚 Pottery

Books with pottery on their catalogue record, first published between 1858 and 2001, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject pottery in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 22,529 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	A potter's book	Bernard Leach	1940	21
	Ceramics	Glenn C. Nelson	1960	20
	The blue-china book	Ada Walker Camehl	1916	18
	The complete book of pottery making	John B. Kenny	1945	16
	Ancient pottery of the Mississippi valley	William Henry Holmes	1885	13
	Pottery in the making	Dora Lunn	1931	13
	Clay and glazes for the potter	Daniel Rhodes	1957	12
	Index of figure-types on terra sigillata ("Samian ware")	Felix Oswald	1936	10
	Fifth Chinese daughter	Jade Snow Wong	1950	10
	Ceramic screen printing	Albert Kosloff	1962	10
	History of ancient pottery	Samuel Birch	1858	9
	The pottery and porcelain of the United States	Edwin Atlee Barber	1893	9
	A potter's work	Bernard Leach	1967	9
	The beginner's book of pottery	Harold Powell	1960	7
	Book of ceramics	Pravoslav Rada	1960	7
	The Encyclopedia of Pottery Techniques	Peter Cosentino	1990	7
	Pottery - the technique of throwing	John Colbeck	1969	6
	The potter's book of glaze recipes	Emmanuel Cooper	1980	6
	Electric kiln ceramics	Richard Zakin	1981	6
	Pottery	Doug Wensley	1989	6
	An introduction to pottery	Linde Wallner	1990	6
	The craft and art of clay	Susan Peterson	1992	6
	Conservation and Restoration of Ceramics	Susan Buys	1996	6
	The Practical Potter	Josie Warshaw	2001	6
	Pottery: form and expression	Marguerite Wildenhain	1959	5
	Animals in pottery and porcelain	John Patrick Cushion	1966	5
	A history of world pottery	Emmanuel Cooper	1981	5
	Pottery	John Gale	1984	5
	Coiled Pottery	Betty Blandino	1984	5
	Ceramics	Richard Zakin	1990	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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