Product Description

This pictorial history of glassware from pre-Roman times to the present day, written by experts and including essays on specialized fields such as Islamic, Venetian and Chinese glass, Tiffany, and Art Nouveau, is also a reference book for identification purposes. It includes an illustrated end section containing a bibliography, glossary and biographies of major glass producers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #468953 in Books
• Published on: 1994-08-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Customer Reviews

Want to know what glass should be? I mean really should be.
This book is exactly want the title implies. This is a concise encyclopedia of glass. Well laid out in 10 sections with an intriguing forward and an informative introduction. There is a select bibliography a section on care and conservation among other interesting finds. Color plates abound with concise descriptions.
If you only obtain one book on the diversity of glass, this should be the one.
Contents:
Pre-Roman glass
Roman Glass
Islamic Glass
Medieval Glass
The renaissance Period
The Eighteenth Century
Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau
Twentieth-Century Developments
Fakes and Forgeries