This title was first published in 1990 under the Self-Publishing Association imprint. Being one of the few books on this increasingly topical subject (and the only one devoted to it) it is a now being re-launched, previous information that it was 'out of print' being incorrect. In this book, Alison Kelly traces the origin and the history of the Coade stone. This extraordinary stoneware, which proved to be more durable and weather resistant than stone itself, has its origins in the second half of the 18th Century.