Old Glass European and American

ALTHOUGH this book deals with Old Glass, I fi am not going back to Tubal Cain. Nor am I about to quote what Pliny, the Roman historian ( A.D. 23 to 79), wrote about its discovery, for there are other historians who think he was mistaken, since it is impossible to make glass in the open air and under the conditions he describes.

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Table of Contents:

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CONTENTS

THE ART OF GLASS-MAKING

VENETIAN GLASS

BOHEMIAN GLASS

DUTCH AND FLEMISH GLASS

GERMAN GLASS

SPANISH GLASS

FRENCH GLASS

ENGLISH GLASS

BRISTOL GLASS

NAILSEA GLASS

IRISH GLASS

WATERFORD GLASS

DUBLIN AND CORK GLASS

AMERICAN GLASS

WISTARBERG GLASS

STIEGEL GLASS

OTHER EARLY GLASS

BOTTLES AND FLASKS

THREE-SECTION MOULD GLASS

STODDARD GLASS

KEENE GLASS

PITKIN GLASS

HISTORIC CUP PLATES

SANDWICH: GLASS

AMERICAN GLASS FACTORIES

INDEX