Category - Non Fiction / History
Format - Hardcover
Condition - Good
Listed - 2 months ago
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Ships From - California
Seller Description
Slight color fading on book jacket Some turned edges on book jacket Crown Publishers, 1972, 634 pages The most complete book on the subject ever issued, it covers the entire craft of early American glassmaking, presenting a detailed history and a clear account of the methods, mixtures, patterns, decorations, colors, glass houses, products. Every type— Free Blown, Engraved and Cut, Superimposed Decoration, Pattern Molded and Expanded, Blown Three Mold, and Pressed -is thoroughly discussed. There are charts and tables, showing and describing in convenient ready reference form identification numbers, the obverse, reverse, size, form, edge, neck finish, base, colors, glass house, scarcity factors of bottles and flasks, cup plates, Blown Three Mold, Lacy Glass, Pressed Lamps, Vases and Candlesticks. These charts and tables together with the illustrations enable the reader to identify and evaluate almost every collectible piece of American Glass. There are more than 3000 illustrations, including 2000 authentic photographs, and more than 1000 detailed line drawings by James L. McCreery. This magniticent gallery of pictures, displaying the entire panorama of the glassmaker's craft, illuminates and enhances the text.