"The Toledo Museum of Art has one of the largest, most extensive and most varied collections of Roman glass vessels and objects from the eastern Mediterranean currently housed in any museum"--Foreword, p. 9.
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"The Toledo Museum of Art has one of the largest, most extensive and most varied collections of Roman glass vessels and objects from the eastern Mediterranean currently housed in any museum"--Foreword, p. 9.
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Seller's Description:
Good. Very Good Plus Dust Jacket. Folio-over 12"-15" tall. 388 pp. Text is free of markings. Please Note: (1) The back gutter / hinge is beginning to show some weakness. (2) The top right front corner of the book is bumped. There is a corresponding bump to the top corner of the pages. However, the bump, impression to the pages, does not affect the text or images themselves.
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Very Good. Hardcover. 4to. Alfred The Toledo Museum of Art. 1995. 388 pgs. Illustrated with Color / Black and White Plates. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards very lightly rubbed and worn. Founded by the glass manufacturer Edward Drummond Libbey at the beginning of this century, the Toledo Museum of Art today possesses one of the largest collections of glass in the world: some 6, 000 pieces that document the artistic and technological evolution of glass from the Bronze Age to our own day. Second in the planned series for the scholarly publication of all the ancient glass in the collection, the volume includes 193 objects of blown glass made between the first and sixth centuries A. D. E-02; 4to 11"-13" tall.
