An Illustrated Guide to British Jugs: From Medieval Times to the 20th Century

A jug is a jug is a jug: so wrote Gertrude Stein. If she didn’t, she might well have done. But if she did, she would have been wrong, and here is the book to prove it. Anyone who believes that a jug is merely a utilitarian object to accommodate fluids should peruse this book to find out how wrong they are, for Dick Henrywood and his publishers display here more than 700 plates illustrating the diverse designs of British jugs from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries onwards. The variety is simply incredible.

There is also prose ‐ plenty of...