A short history of glass - Softcover

ZERWICK, Chloe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0872901211 ISBN 13: 9780872901216

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990

Synopsis

With 97 illustrations in color.

About this title

From Library Journal:

This popular survey of glass production from pre-Roman times to the present is most notable for its fine color illustrations, which depict museum pieces from the Corning Museum of Glass. Obviously intended for museum visitors who are nonspecialists, the text covers a lot of ground in rather brief fashion. Collectors would be better served by a survey such as Paul Vickers Gardner's Glass , a volume from the Smithsonian Illustrated Library of Antiques (1979) that deals with the same topic in more detail. Library collections serving researchers will need histories that are more extensive than this one. Recommended only for nonspecialized collections.
- Constance Ashmore Fairchild, Univ. of Illinois Lib., Urbana-Champaign
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review:

"I was impressed by its clarity and comprehensiveness. It is a great work."Dwight Lanmon, former director, Corning Museum of Glass.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0872901211
• ISBN 13: 9780872901216
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 112