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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 1200grams, ISBN: 029776909X.
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First edition (hardback). 8vo (24cm by 16cm), xxxi, 557pp. 68 plates and a folding genealogy. Original red cloth, dustwrapper. The book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. ISBN 029776909X.
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Good in Very Good jacket. Ex-Library. 4to. EX-LUBRARY copy with stamps by the upper corner on the front flyleaf, title page (no text affected), title verso, occasionally throughout, and on the rear flyleaf, sticker and barcode laid down on the rear flyleaf with a tear in the surface paper (illustration affected). Cloth boards, lightly flecked at the edges, in dust-jacket. The story of glass from medieval times to the industrial age. The development of town and forest glasshouses are described. The histories of illustrious patrons of glass and of great glassmakers, following some to America, where glassmaking flourished from the17th century onwards, are discussed.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977. Square and unmarked. Full red cloth binding. 557pp. Photos. Jacket is rubbed, with a tear along rear flap fold. Now in a new mylar cover. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to-over 9"-12" Tall.
Edition:
Presumed First Edition, First printing thus
Publisher:
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Published:
1977
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
14710092102
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Very good in Very good jacket. xxxi, [1], 557, [1] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Photographs. Drawings, Graphs, Charts and Plans. Tables. Appendices. Collected Endnotes. Index. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. Chapters 1-11 are based on the author's Pilkington Brothers and the Glass Industry published in 1960. Theodore Cardwell Barker (19 July 1923-22 November 2001), usually known as Theo Barker, was a British social and economic historian. Barker obtained a first-class degree in Modern History from Jesus College, Oxford in 1948. He obtained a doctorate from the University of Manchester in 1951, on the 19th century history of St Helens. This led to his first book, co-written with John Harris, who had been researching St Helens in the 18th century. His work on the history of St Helens led to his researching the history of Pilkington Glass, which was based in the town. He was founding chairman of the Oral History Society and as secretary and then chairman of the British National Committee of Historians. The company was founded in 1826 as a partnership between members of the Pilkington and Greenall families, based in St Helens, Lancashire. The venture used the trading name of St Helens Crown Glass Company. On the departure from the partnership of the last Greenall in 1845, the firm became known as Pilkington Brothers. In July 1894 the business was incorporated under the Companies Act 1862 as Pilkington Brothers Limited. Pilkington was floated as a public company on the London Stock Exchange in 1970. It was for many years the biggest employer in the northwest industrial town. The distinctive blue-glass head office tower-block on Alexandra Business Park, off Prescot Road, used as the firm's world HQ, and completed in 1964, still dominates the town's skyline. Between 1953 and 1957, (Sir) Alastair Pilkington and Kenneth Bickerstaff invented the Float Glass Process, a revolutionary method of high quality flat glass production by floating molten glass over a bath of molten tin, avoiding the costly need to grind and polish plate glass to make it clear.
