This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXII CONTEMPORARY GLASS HE history of glass in the nineteenth century is mainly concerned with improvements in me chanical processes, by means of which it is now possible to turn out a perfectly clear white glass in large quantities at greatly reduced cost. Meantime little heed has been given ...
Read More
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXII CONTEMPORARY GLASS HE history of glass in the nineteenth century is mainly concerned with improvements in me chanical processes, by means of which it is now possible to turn out a perfectly clear white glass in large quantities at greatly reduced cost. Meantime little heed has been given to the artistic merit of individual pieces. In fact, thanks in no small measure to one widely applied mechanical 'improvement, ' the process namely of pressing into a mould, the highly trained skill of the glass-blower has been less and less called into play, so that now a complaint is heard, both in England and in France, of the difficulty of finding workmen thoroughly masters of the art. The last stage, indeed, in the decline of our English cut-glass was reached when 'passable imitations' of the facetted work were turned out by this 'pressing' process. And yet from time to time attempts have been made on the one hand to give fresh life to old methods of work and schemes of decoration, on the other to develop the application of the material along new or previously little explored paths. Of what has been effected in Venice in the first of these directions something has already been said. In England, and we may add in Germany also (at Berlin, for instance, and at Ehrenfeld, near Cologne), these attempts have for the most part taken the direction of revivals, as when by the skilful use of the blowingiron table-glass has been produced of graceful but rather fantastic outlines and with more or less reminiscence of Venetian prototypes. I need not dwell upon such efforts, as nothing in the way of a school has been founded. It is indeed noticeable that both in Germany and in England, in the case of the more expensive table-glass that we now see in..
Read Less
Add this copy of Glass to cart. $15.29, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2015 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform.
Add this copy of Glass to cart. $15.57, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2021 by Alpha Edition.
Add this copy of Glass (the Connoisseur's Library) to cart. $18.75, fair condition, Sold by Second Story Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Rockville, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1907 by G.P. Putnam's Sons.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Book. Octavo; Fair+; Hardcover; Spine, brown with gold print; Boards in brown cloth with gold print, tattered spine caps and corners, small stains, smudging/shelfwear, warping; Text block has cracked front hinge, intermittent spine breaks, uncut pages, occasional foxing at plates; xxviii, 373 pages, frontispiece, illustrated (b&w and color plates). 1350992. FP New Rockville Stock.
Add this copy of Glass to cart. $19.51, fair condition, Sold by Anybook rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1907 by Nabu Press.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
This book has soft covers. Ex-library, With usual stamps and markings, In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 1500grams, ISBN:
Add this copy of Glass to cart. $39.01, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2015 by CreateSpace Independent Publis.
Add this copy of Glass to cart. $63.96, new condition, Sold by Booksplease rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Southport, MERSEYSIDE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2015 by Arkose Press.
Add this copy of Glass to cart. $71.19, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2015 by Arkose Press.