The book has been researched using original sources for more than ten years using our mutual and complementary interests of historian and potter. We have also interviewed a number of Fishley family members including former potters as well as private and public collectors, resulting in over 500 pages of illustrated text.

George Fishley is at the heart of a gifted and long lasting dynasty of North Devon potters.  Our investigation into his life and legacy is based on all the major pieces of his work, which are considered in detail, as well of those of his three sons and grandson during his lifetime, 1770 to 1865. We also show him as part of that wider field and longer history of this regional pottery trade and industry. We have discovered some important evidence and maps to illustrate this, some of which is unique. 

Pots are presented as evidence in their own right and almost entirely in full page illustrations that show excellent, easily observable detail. This enables readers to reach their own conclusions as well as reading ours. On this evidence and in our opinion, George Fishley is of national, even international, importance.