Paperweights : Flowers which Clothe the Meadows

Author(s): Hollister, Paul; Lanmon, Dwight P

Binding:	Hardcover
Volume Condition:	Very Good
Dust Jacket:	No
Dust Jacket Condition:	Good
Edition:	1st Edition
Impression:	1st Impression
Language:	English
Publisher Name:	The Corning Museum of Glass
Publication Year:	1978
Publication Place:	USA
Book ID:	004320
Catalogue(s):	Arts and Crafts ◇ Antiques and Collectibles

166pp. Profusely, richly illustrated in colour. Black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles (very slightly rounded at spine tips). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Deep grey endpapers. In its original, now heavily bump at edges with a few short tears resulting in minor loss, chipped around base of spine, but just about complete and fitting). A gloriously illustrated study of the history and development of the glass paperweight, from their first appearance in Europe in the 1840s, through the classic period when the art form reached a pinnacle in England in the mid 19th century, its development in Venice and Murano and the French excellence, with a brief history of collecting paperweights too.

Keywords:

paperweights glass glass art