This classic handbook introduces students to the fundamentals of the ceramic arts, beginning with a comprehensive history of ceramic materials, techniques, and practices up to the present day and then moving to a detailed presentation of ceramic techniques from the most basic to the complex.  There is a reason this book became a reprinted bible of pottery information for so long. This is a succinct and well written overview of pottey, including a very brief, but well cherry-picked history, a description of the types of ceramic arts and how the changed over time, as well as a discussion on making, finishing, glazes and glazing, kilns and other studio equipment.