English glass / edited by Sidney Crompton; contributors: E.M. Elville, Euan Ross.

Title: 
English glass / edited by Sidney Crompton; contributors: E.M. Elville, Euan Ross.

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Author/Artist: 
Crompton, Sidney.
Publisher: 
London : Ward Lock, 1967.
Description: 
255 p. : ill. (1 col.) ; 21 cm.
Other Authors: 
Elville, E. M.
Ross, Euan.
Format of Material: 
Books
Subjects: 
Glassware England.
Glass Dictionaries.
Bib ID: 
25346
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Location: 
Secured Stacks
Call Number: 
NK5143.C94
Location: 
Stacks
Call Number: 
NK5143.C94
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Notes: 
Includes bibliographical references (p. 86-87) and index.
f-2516, 5 sheets.
Contents: 
Pt. 1. The traditions of English glass --
Techniques of the glassmaker --
Collectors and collecting --
Fakes and forgeries --
Museums and collections --
Chronology for collectors --
Glossary --
Bibliography
Pt. 2. Seventeenth century glass --
Baluster stems --
Silesian or moulded pedestal stems --
Balustroid stems and light balusters --
Plain straight stems --
Air-twist stems --
Composite stems --
Opaque white twist stems --
Jacobite and Williamite glass --
Mixed and coloured twist stems --
Faceted stems --
Irish and cut glass --
Nailsea and Bristol --
Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century glass --
Victorian glass --
Modern glass
ISBN: 
0706310292 (Third impression)

Object/Material Note

Object/Material Note: 
Includes CMoG objects: 66.1.247, plate 3 -- 66.2.20, plate 34 -- 79.2.291, plate 36 -- 79.2.229, plate 164 (left) -- 66.2.10, plate 196.