This beautifully illustrated volume presents sixty-eight objects from one of the world's finest collections of post-classical glass--including such marvels as glass imitating rock-crystal and other semi-precious stones, glass formed into large and intricate shapes, and glass decorated with engraving, enameling, gilding, and carving. Each object is painstakingly described and a series of essays provide a wealth of background information.
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This beautifully illustrated volume presents sixty-eight objects from one of the world's finest collections of post-classical glass--including such marvels as glass imitating rock-crystal and other semi-precious stones, glass formed into large and intricate shapes, and glass decorated with engraving, enameling, gilding, and carving. Each object is painstakingly described and a series of essays provide a wealth of background information.
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Collection catalogue. First edition. 310x230mm 258 pages with index. 69 colour 199 black and white illustrations. Catalogue of 68 objects from the collection of post-classical glass from Europe. The glass is predominantly from the later middle ages to the seventeenth century. Cloth. Fine in near fine dustjacket.
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Very Good jacket. Very Good in Very Good unclipped dust jacket. Appars unread with NO markings in text. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.
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New. 1997, 258 pages, 9 x 12 in size, Hardcover with dustjacket in protected mylar cover (removable). Book and Dustjacket are in Unused Condition. Book is completely intact with inside pages in Excellent Condition with no tears and with no notations (no pencil marks, no underlining, no highlighting, etc. )
