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A History of the Stained Glass of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
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. Price US$60.00
Stained Glass before 1700 in the Collections of the Mid-West States (HMCV)
by V.C. Raguin and H.J. Zakin
This, the first publication in a major new ten part series, forms part of the international Corpus Vitrearum. It catalogues almost 200 panels of stained glass from collections in the Detroit Institute of Art; the Art Institute in Chicago; the University ...
Hardback. Price US$393.00
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. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price US$69.95
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
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. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price US$134.00
The Tylos Period Burials in Bahrain. Vol 1: The Glass and Pottery Vessels
by Soren Fredslund Andersen
Since 1970, the Bahrain National Museum has excavated thousands of graves from the so- called Tylos period (c. 300 BC to AD 600). The results of these excavations are now being published. The first volume presents c. 300 glass vessels from East Roman and Mesopotamian workshops, and c. 1800 pottery vessels of local produce. The interpretation of this material has made possible a new chronology of the Tylos period, and casts new light on relations ...
Hardback. Price US$47.00
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
Stained Glass before 1700 in Upstate New York
by M. Lillich
The present volume catalogues and illustrates all the stained glass produced before 1700 in the collections of Upstate New York. It includes the glass in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, in the Hyde Collection at Glen Falls, in Ithaca College, and predominantly in Corning, where the Corning Glass Museum is well known for its exceptional collection and where also Christ Episcopal Church houses two ...
Hardback. Price US$219.00
'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
Glass of Four Millennia
by Martine Newby
This book charts the development of Glass over four millennia -- from 18th Dynasty Egypt, through to the present day -- illustrated by 56 examples from the collections held by the Ashmolean Museum. The earliest fragments are from a Meopotamian glass beaker, dating from the 15th/14th century BC and found relatively recently in Iraq; the earliest complete piece is a small, green fish-shaped dish from Ancient Egypt dated 1400/1300 BC. The invention ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$22.95, Our Price US$7.98
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