Architecture & Art

This catalog of an exhibition held at Musée royal de Mariemont, Apr. 9 to Sept. 4, 2011, includes essays in French, English, and Dutch.

Includes a brief history of glassmaking in England, information on the tools of the glassblower and on drinking in England in the time period, and illustrations and detailed physical descriptions of dozens of glass works, primarily wineglasses and bottles.

Architecture & Art

A survey of 20th-century Murano glass, with illustrated sections on various glass makers, artist biographies, labels and signatures, notes, a bibliography, and an index.

Undergraduate Library

A scholarly history of glass in England and its relationship with English society. Includes notes and a comprehensive bibliography.

Main Stacks

An important, though brief, survey of 19th-century British glass, presenting the results of extensive primary research. Includes bibliographical references.

Main Stacks

An authoritative history of glassware produced in Ireland between 1780 and 1835, with an emphasis on Waterford glass.

Architecture & Art

This study of late 19th- and early 20th-century French glass offers chapters entitled "The Technicians and the Revival," "Oriental Influences and the Search for New Forms," "The Successors to François-Eugène Rousseau," "The School of Nancy," and "Pate-de-Verre." Includes many black-and-white and color photographs, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index.

Main Stacks

A beautiful presentation of carved and decorated glass created during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Main Stacks

This history of English glass emphasizes identification of types. With a basic bibliography.

Main Stacks and Oak St.

A history of European glass from Antiquity to the mid-20th century, with emphasis on explaining technique. V. 1. "From earliest times to 1850." V. 2. "From the mid-nineteenth century to the present."

Main Stacks

An illustrated, scholarly survey of Spanish glass from Medieval times to the mid 20th-century. With a map of glass centers in Spain, a bibliography, and an index.

Main Stacks and Oak St.

A history of English glass from the second century A.D. to the 20th century, with discussion of the importance of glass in the general development of taste and fashion.

Main Stacks

A handbook of British glassware from the late 16th to the early 19th century, with collection plates, notes, and a general bibliography.

Oak St.

Based on archival research, a detailed, advanced study of Belgian glass, including illustrations of 150 examples from Belgian collections. With a detailed index and bibliography.

Main Stacks and Oak St.

An illustrated introductory survey of French glass making from ancient times to the mid 20th-century. Includes a glossary, brief biographies of glass makers, an index of centers, and a bibliography.

Main Stacks and Oak St.

A standard survey of glassmaking from ancient Egypt to the mid-19th century, with emphasis on British and American works.