Add this copy of Glass in the Old World to cart. $98.81, very good condition, Sold by Rooke Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from BATH, SOMERSET, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1883 by Field and Tuer.
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None. Very Good. A guide to the use of glass as decoration during classical civilisation, covering the use of glass by the Greeks, the Romans, the Japanese, and many other cultures. With six plates, two of which are beautifully coloured. People have been used naturally occurring glass since the Stone Age. Obsidian is the most known natural glass which is formed from volcano eruption. Evidence for the use of glass in the ancient world is widespread but little is known about the production of glass in that time. There is still some doubt as to where and when glass was invented. Pliny the Elder, the ancient-Roman historian, located this event on the Phoenician coast, in modern Lebanon, where there later grew one of the most important glass-making centers and attributed the discovery of glass to the Phoenician merchants. (HOG) In brown cloth binding. Externally sound, with some wear to the head and tail of the spine, and a few marks to the boards. Internally, generally firmly bound. Blindstamp of Castle Kevin to half-title. Pages have some light scattered spotting. Very Good.
