European American Art Glass – Bohemian Venetian French Etc. / Scarce Book

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ANTIQUE GLASS IN COLOR
by Keith Middlemas, Doubleday & Co., NY, 1971.
This scholarly book "traces the fascinating development of colored glass in Europe from the height of the Roman Empire to the epoch of Art Nouveau and Art Deco, showing how the glassmaking art survived the fall of Rome, was preserved in France and in the vernacular tradition of the Rhineland and was brought to a peak in the sixteenth century by Venetian craftsmen in the
Facon de Venise."
"Individual chapters cover the growth of fine glassmaking in Germany, Spain, France and the
Netherlands
and the sections on early
nineteenth
century and on Art Nouveau are particularly detailed and are of special interest to American collectors. The 96 pages of superb full color illustrations show in great detail how European glass manufacture developed from the fifteenth to the twentieth century."
Oversize 8.8" x 11.9" hardback with dust cover in very good condition.  120 pages.
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