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The Stained Glass of A.W.N. Pugin
by Stanley Shepherd
This eagerly awaited study provides a complete record of Pugin's extraordinary achievements in stained glass design and manufacture. Beautifully illustrated with photography by Alastair Carew-Cox, it shows how Pugin rose to the challenges of creating stained glass in the early Victorian period according to medieval principles; how he worked with leading makers of the day; how he forged a partnership with John Hardman of Birmingham; how this ...
Hardback. Price US$69.95
A History of the Stained Glass of St George's Chapel, Windsor
edited by Sarah Brown
St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle is one of the most famous buildings in the World, the venue for national pageant and ceremony since the Middle Ages. Created to be the architectural back-drop for the activities of the Order of the Garter, the pre-eminent chivalric order of medieval England, in modern times the chapel has become one of the country's premier tourist destinations. The stained glass of the chapel, dating from the early 16th ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price US$60.00, Our Price US$19.98
Glass: From Sasanian Antecedents to European Imitations
by Sidney M. Goldstein
Catalogue of more than 300 examples of pre-Islamic and Islamic glass objects that are held in the Khalili Collection. The objects are grouped according to techniques of manufacture and decoration, and chronologically; the catalogue illustrating the development of glass making technology from its Byzantine and Sasanian beginnings into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries when European makers found new inspiration in Islamic forms. Mould formed ...
Hardback. Price US$180.00
Catalogue of Anglo-Saxon Glass in the British Museum
by Vera I. Evison
This definitive book on Anglo-Saxon glass by major scholars in the field is the first monograph to be published on the subject. It focuses not only on the British Museum collection but provides a detailed discussion of the various types of early Anglo-Saxon glass (vessels, plus gems, beads and window glass), placing it in its English context, but also drawing widely on Continental and Scandinavian early medieval glass. This is complemented by new ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price US$70.00, Our Price US$50.00
Studien zur Glasproduktion seit dem 12. Jahrhundert im östlichen Westfalen
by Rudolf Bergmann
174p (Philipp von Zabern 2008)
Hardback. Price US$25.00
Il vetro come materiale strutturale: Con i risultati delle ricerche sperimentali ed analitiche condotte presso il Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Ambientale dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze
by Emanuele Cagnacci, Maurizio Orlando and Paolo Spinelli
English summary: This volume presents research sponsored by the University of Florence Department of Civil Engineering on the potential for glass as structural material, examining its physical characteristics and in particular its fragility. Specific efforts are described to limit the inherent risks in using glass as a building material. Italian text.
Italian description: Nel volume si esplorano le potenzialità del ...
Hardback. Price US$42.00
Mohn & Kothgasser: Transparent bemaltes Biedermeierglas - Transparent-Enamelled Biedermeier Glass
by Paul von Lichtenberg
This unique reference book compares the glass art of Samuel and Gottlob Mohn with the works of Anton Kothgasser. They explain the differences and similarities of decoration and painting using pieces from major museums and inaccessible private collections, and employing never-before published texts, images, and detail shots.
Using the description of the glass as a starting point, the author recreates the time and lifestyle of its ...
Hardback. Price US$240.00
Tiryns XVI: Kleinfunde aus Tiryns. Terrakotta, Stein, Bein und Glas/Fayence, vornehmlich der späten Bronzezeit
by Lorenz Rahmstorf
This volume presents around 2000 finds from the excavations of the Late Bronze Age Lower Citadel of Tiryns. These are items of everyday use, such as tools, objects and jewelry made from terracotta, stone, bone, fayence and glass. It discusses in detail the finds' context, stratigraphic and chronological order, function and comparisons within and outside Greece. German text.
508p, 1998 illus, 89 col illus, CD-ROM (Reichert Verlag 2008)
Hardback. Price US$134.00
John Baker's late 17th century glasshouse at Vauxhall
by Kieron Tyler and Hugh Willmott
John Baker's Thameside glasshouse in Vauxhall is the first of London's 17th-century glasshouses to be excavated. This publication describes the finds from the site, demonstrates how Vauxhall competed with London's other glasshouses, and discusses London's late 17th-century glass industry. The glasshouse opened sometime between 1663 and 1681, and had closed by 1704. Excavations in 1989 found a furnace, crucibles, tools, working waste and finished ...
Paperback. Price US$26.00
'The Hotties': Excavation and Building Survey at Pilkingtons' No 9 Tank House, St Helens, Merseyside
by Mick Krupa and Richard Heawood, with contributions by A J Bell, D Martlew and C Wild
The remains of Pilkingtons' No 9 Tank House represent a unique survival from the 19th century, an period of rapid development within the glass industry characterised by innovative but short-lived design. These remains are now recognised as the most complete known glass furnace structures of their era. Between 1991 and 1997, Lancaster University Archaeological Unit (now Oxford Archaeology North) conducted a programme of standing building survey, ...
Paperback. Price US$34.00
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