"This book documents and illustrates one hundred and twenty-seven examples (and sets) of English glass made between the mid-1640s and 1809"--P. 11.
Contents:
A brief history of glassmaking in England -- Tools of the glassblower -- Drinking in England -- Seventeenth century English objects of lead glass -- Drinking glasses with heavy-baluster stems -- Diamond-point engraving -- Wheel-engraved English glass -- Panel-moulded stems -- Jacobite glass -- Glasses with internal spirals in their stems -- Gilding on glass -- Glass candlesticks, "branches" and chandeliers -- Window glass, plate glass and mirrors -- English black-glass bottles -- Chemical analyses of the glasses / by Robert H. Brill.
Subject Terms:
Bryan, John H. (John Henry), 1936- -- Art collections -- Catalogs. | Glassware -- England -- History -- 17th century. | Glassware -- England -- History -- 18th century. | Glassware -- England -- 17th century -- Catalogs. | Glassware -- England -- 18th century -- Catalogs. | Glass manufacture -- England -- History.