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Glass

John Baker's late 17th century glasshouse at Vauxhall
by Kieron Tyler and Hugh Willmott
John Bakers Thameside glasshouse in Vauxhall is the first of Londons 17th-century glasshouses to be excavated. This publication describes the finds from the site, demonstrates how Vauxhall competed with Londons other glasshouses and discusses Londons 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 GB £12.95

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 GB £128.00

The Mystery of the Portland Vase
by Robin Brooks
In 1845 a glass vase that had survived for almost 2,000 years was smashed into hundreds of pieces in the British Museum by a drunkard armed with a piece from an ancient Persian monument. Now lovingly restored and back on display, this wonderful book charts the history of the vase in a series of nineteen `fragments' which are intended to reconstruct the fractured history of the vase. These begin with the vase's discovery in 1582 by Fabrizio ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £9.99, Our Price GB £3.95
Hardback. Price GB £18.99

Early Post-medieval Vessel Glass In England c.1500-1670
by Hugh Willmott
This volume presents the `first comprehensive classification' of post-medieval vessel glass, including both fine, decorative items as well as more day-to-day domestic objects. Intended as a `first-step for the archaeologist, art historian, collector' and interested reader, the guide examines and contrasts examples found from a wide range of excavations across England. The catalogue (of beakers, goblets, jugs, flasks, bottles, bowls, jars and ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £30.00, Our Price GB £7.95

'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 GB £18.95

Glass of Four Millennia
by Martine Newby
^BGlass by Martine Newby (Ashmolean Museum Publications 19 )
Hardback. Price GB £11.95

Stained Glass before 1700 in the Philadelphia Museum of Art
by R. Burnham
250p (Brepols 2011)
Hardback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price GB £132.00

Glasfunde des Mittelalters und der fruhen Neuzeit aus Braunschweig
by Martia Bruckschen
This detailed and specialised analysis of hollow glass production and glass objects produced in northern Germany during the medieval and early post-medieval periods is based around an illustrated catalogue of almost 400 vessels found during excavations of ...
Hardback. Price GB £70.00

Conservation and Restoration of Glass
by Sandra Davison
An introduction and textbook for students studying conservation and for conservators and restorers of glass, now available as a revised second edition. Focusing less on painted glass restoration (which has been removed) and more on conservation issues, ...
Hardback. Price GB £105.00

Frühmittelalterliche Gläser des 5-7/8 Jahrhunderts n Chr
by Birgit Maul
Maul's thesis on the typology and chronology of early medieval glass vessels primarily focuses on examples held in museums across Germany but includes vessels from France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Britain and Switzerland. Divided into two volumes, the ...
Hardback. Price GB £115.00