Antique American Blown Pressed Cut Glass - History Makers Types / In-Depth Book

Description

AMERICAN GLASS – TWO VOLUMES IN ONE; Vol. 1 - Blown and Molded and Vol. 2 Pressed and Cut
, edited by Marvin Schwartz and Robert DiBartolomeo, Weathervane Books, NY, 1974.
Profusely illustrated in black-and-white, this in-depth text features approximately 65 authoritative articles on collecting American antique glass.  Since its inception in 1922, the magazine
ANTIQUES
has been publishing articles on the major types of American glass – blown and molded glass, and pressed and cut glass – which have been invaluable to glass collectors.  The authors of these articles make up a “Who’s Who” of glass researchers and scholars.  This book is a compilation of those articles.
Typically several pages in length, each article focuses on a subject.  Subjects include: The Lancaster Glass Works, Stoddard Glass, Keene, Connecticut Glass, Mantua Glass Works, The Glass Industry of Cleveland, Sandwich Glass, New York State Glass Houses, and others.  Other articles include Pattern Molds and Pattern-Mold Glass, Three-Mold Glass, Blown-Three Mold Glass, Origins of American Glass, American Blown Wines, A Study of Panel Vases, Foreign Influences in American Glass, and more.  If you are a collector, dealer, or historian of American glass, you will want this indispensable resource book as a part of your permanent reference library.
8.75” x 11.2” hardback with dust cover in very good condition.  435 pages.
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