A booke of sundry draughtes principaly serving for glasiers: and not impertinent for plasters, and gardiners : besides sundry other professions. Whereunto is annexed the manner how to anniel in glas: and also the true forme of the fornace, and the secretes thereof.

Title: 
A booke of sundry draughtes principaly serving for glasiers: and not impertinent for plasters, and gardiners : besides sundry other professions. Whereunto is annexed the manner how to anniel in glas: and also the true forme of the fornace, and the secretes thereof.

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Author/Artist: 
Gedde, Walter.
Publisher: 
London : Printed in Shoolane, at the signe of the Faulcon by Walter Dight, 1615.
Description: 
[10] leaves, 103 p. of illus.(plus 1 fold.), [4]leaves ; 19 cm.
Format of Material: 
Books
Subjects: 
Windows.
Decoration and ornament.
Glass painting and staining Technique.
Enamel and enameling Technique.
Leaded glass.
Bib ID: 
28541
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Location: 
Secured Stacks - Rare Books
Call Number: 
NK5420.G45 *
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Notes: 
Paging followed by 6 blank β., 4 with 18th or 19th century handwritten notes mentioning earlier glass painters.
Patterns for stained glass by Walter Gedde, created in 1615.
Annealing furnace illustration, image of stained glass section t.p., and scan of inscription in the back Displayed in the exhibition titled "The Science of Glassmaking : 8 Centuries of a Magical Art", held at the Rakow Research Library, June 27, 2008-January 4, 2009.
This copy damaged in flood, rebound by C. Horton.