Five thousand years of glass / edited by Hugh Tait.

Title: 
Five thousand years of glass / edited by Hugh Tait.

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Author/Artist: 
Tait, Hugh.
Publisher: 
London : Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Press, 1995, c1991.
Description: 
256 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 28 cm.
Other Authors: 
Hollister, Paul M., 1918-2004. Europe and America 1800-1940.
Gudenrath, William. Techniques of glassmaking and decoration.
Tatton-Brown, Veronica.
Pinder-Wilson, Ralph H.
Tait, Hugh. Glass, 5,000 years.
British Museum.
Edition: 
1st pbk. ed.
Format of Material: 
Books
Subjects: 
Glassware History.
Glass art History.
Glass blowing and working History.
Decorative glass processes. YKM
Bib ID: 
27096
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Location: 
Stacks
Call Number: 
NK5106.T13b 1995
Location: 
Secured Stacks
Call Number: 
NK5106.T13b 1995
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Variant Title: 
5000 years of glass
5,000 years of glass
5 thousand years of glass
Notes: 
First published in 1991.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-249) and index.
Reviewed by Charles Hajdamach in Crafts (U.K.), no. 116, May/June 1992, p. 58.
Reviewed by Ian Wolfenden in The Glass Cone, no. 31, p. 2.
Reviewed by David C. Watts in Glass Circle News, no. 63, June 1995, p. 4.
Includes illustrated descriptions of glass working techniques.
For fiche, use F-14,933.
ISBN: 
0714117560 (pbk.) : $34.75

Object/Material Note

Object/Material Note: 
Includes CMoG objects: 74.3.24 A, t.p. -- 74.3.24 B, t.p. -- 74.3.24 C, t.p. -- 74.3.24 D, t.p. -- 74.3.24 E, t.p. -- 74.3.24 F, t.p. -- 74.3.24 G, t.p. -- 74.3.24 H, t.p. -- 74.3.24 I, t.p. -- 80.3.38, p. 19 (#13-14) -- 78.1.1, p. 87 (#109) -- 74.3.129, p. 190 (#244) -- 66.3.20, p. 191 (#245) -- 65.3.68, p. 192 (#246) -- 54.2.16, p. 194-195 (#248) -- 84.4.165, p. 196-197 (#249) -- 51.4.536, p. 196-197 (#250) -- 89.4.30, p. 196-197 (#251, left) -- 89.4.32, p. 196-197 (#251, center) -- 89.4.34, p. 196-197 (#251, right) -- 62.4.4, p. 200 (#253) -- 79.3.466, p. 202 (#256, right) -- 79.3.330, p. 202 (#256, left) -- 74.3.27, p. 209-210 (#264) -- 65.3.48, p. 210 (#265) -- 59.1.88, p. 226 (fig. 88).