Record details

• ISBN: 0870696122
• ISBN: 9780870696121
• ISBN: 0870696130
• ISBN: 9780870696138
• Physical Description: x, 198 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm.
• Publisher: Radnor, Pa. : Wallace-Homestead Book Co., [1992]
• Copyright: ©1992

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-190) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part I Glass Industry in Early America 1 -- 1 America's First Industry 1 -- 2 Glassmaking after Jamestown: The German Connection 4 -- Part II Lacy Period, 1825-1845 9 -- 3 Americans and the Development of Early Glass Pressing 9 -- 4 Glass Called "Lacy" 12 -- Part III Colonial Era of Pressed Glass, 1845-1865 28 -- 5 Flint Glass of the Mid-Nineteenth Century 28 -- Part IV Golden Age of Pressed Glass, 1865-1915 52 -- 6 Dawn of the Nonflint Era 52 -- 7 Forms and Styles in Late-Victorian Pattern Glass 55 -- 8 Pattern Glass of the Post-Civil War Period, 1865-1870s 58 -- 9 The 1880s: Color Becomes King 77 -- 10 Gay '90s in Pattern Glass 102 -- 11 1900-1915: Twilight of American Pressed-Pattern Glass 130 -- Part V Some Special Pressed Glass and Glassmakers 149 -- 12 Commemorative, Novelty, and Souvenir Pressed Glass 149 -- 13 Special Colored Glassware 163 -- 14 Special Glass Companies 177 -- 15 Collecting and Caring for Pressed Glass 183 -- II Glass Collectors' Clubs 191 -- III Companies that Produced or Distributed Reproduction Pressed Glass 193 -- IV Permanent Collections of American Glass 194.

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Subject:

Pressed glass > United States > History > 19th century.
Pressed glass > United States > History > 20th century.
Pressed glass > Collectors and collecting > United States.

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