AMERICAN GLASS Collector Guide 1941ed PHOTOS & DRAWINGS

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American Glass

by
George S. and Helen McKearin

Published Crown Publishers Inc, New York 1941 edition. Having 622 indexed pages, and containing 2000 photographs, and 1000 drawings, charts and tables. Bound in cloth 8.25 by 10.75 inch hard covers, showing minor edge and general wear, binding still strong, contents clean and bright, and overall in good or better condition. 

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The most complete book on the subject ever issued, it covers the entire craft of early American glassmaking, presenting a detailed history and a clear account of the methods, mixtures, patterns, decorations, colors, glass houses, products. Every type, Free Blown, Engraved and Cut, Superimposed Decoration, Pattern Molded and Expanded, Blown Three Mold, and Pressed - is thoroughly discussed.

There are charts and tables, showing and describing in convenient ready reference form identification numbers, the obverse, reverse, size, form, edge, neck finish, base, colors, glass house, scarcity factors of bottles and flasks, cup plates, Blown Three Mold, Lacy Glass, Pressed Lamps, Vases and Candlesticks. These charts and tables together with the illustrations enable the reader to identify and evaluate almost every collectible piece of American Glass.

There are more than 3000 illustrations, including 2000 authentic photographs, and more than 1000 detailed line drawings by James L. McCreery. This magnificent gallery of pictures, displaying the entire panorama of the glassmaker's craft, illuminates and enhances the text.

AMERICAN GLASS is a work of great authority, a magnificent achievement of scholarship. Mr. McKearin, one of the country's foremost experts on glass, was consulted as a leading authority by almost all the great universities, museums and collectors, and Miss McKearin's writings have established for her a firm and important reputation.

This is a brilliant book on a fine American art, a volume of incomparable value for collectors, students and dealers.