Sotheby's concise encyclopedia of glass

By Cottle Battie and david-battie-simon-cottle

The third in Sotheby's series of encyclopedias, this work surveys the subject of glass from its beginnings in Bronze Age Mesopotamia, tracing its development in major centres of production throughout... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1850293384
• ISBN13: 9781850293385
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Conran Octopus Ltd
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 2.78 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Learn the ins and outs of glass.

This book is exactly what the title implies. This is a concise encyclopedia of glass. Well laid out in 10 sections with an intriguing foreword and an informative introduction. There is a select bibliography, a section on care and conservation, among other interesting finds. Color plates abound with concise descriptions. If you only obtain one book on the diversity of glass, this should be the one. Contents: Pre-Roman glass Roman Glass Islamic Glass Medieval Glass The Renaissance Period The Eighteenth Century Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau Twentieth-Century Developments Fakes and Forgeries