MAKING HEADWAY: PRINTED STOUT AND GINGER BEER BOTTLES FROM NORTH EAST ENGLAND. Volume I: Their Manufacture and the Scottish Potteries. Volume II: The North East Firms and Their Printed Bottles.

First edition, first printing. Two volumes. Publishers original matt pictorial boards with titles in black to the spine and upper board, in dustwrapper. Illustrated throughout with numerous colour photographs and illustrations in black and white. A fine set, the bindings square and firm, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine original dustwrappers, which are free from fading, loss or tears.

A comprehensive catalogue of transfer printed bottles from the North East, detailing their manufacture, the history of the Scottish Potteries which made them and the North Eastern Brewers and Mineral Water companies who used them.