Glass (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: KEY TO THE PRECEDING LIST Egyptian, etc. Griffith, Layard, Petrie. Greco-Roman and Roman. Deville, Froehner, Fowler, Minutoli, Naples Museum, Nesbitt, Pliny. Early Christian, Byzantine, Anglo-Saxon, etc. Brent, Dalton, Garrucci, Heraclius, Passini, Read, Theo- philus, Vopel. Saracenic and Perso-Indian. Lane-Poole, Dobbs, Read, Schmoranz. Venetian (Murano and Altare). Biringuccio, Bontemps, Bordoni, Busselin, Cecchetti, Fioravanti, Garzoni, Houdoy, Labarte, Lazari, Neri, Pinchart, Santi, Schuermans, Zanetti. French and Spanish. Boutellier, Fillon, Fourcaud, Gamier, Gerspach, Pelletier, Riafio. German. Agricola, Brinckmann, Von Czihak, Friedrich, Kunckel, Lobmeyr, Mathesius, Schebek. English. Bate, Hallen, Hartshorne, Merret, Owen, Pellat. Chinese. Bapst, Bushell, Hirth. Technical. Appert, Blancourt, Bontemps, Bosc d'Antic, D'Holbach, Kunckel, Lobmeyr, Loysel, Merret, Neri, Peligot, Pellat, Porter, Powell, Ure. General and historical. Brinckmann, Franks, Gamier, Gerspach, Havard, Labarte, Lacroix, Nesbitt, Sauzay. GLASS- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION GLASS is a substance in so many ways connected with the conveniences and amenities of our daily life, and the word calls up so many varied associations, that I must here at the very beginning make clear with what a comparatively small proportion of the manifold applications of the substance I have to deal. In the first place, this is an art history, so that with methods of manufacture and practical uses we are only concerned so far as they may influence or help to explain points of artistic interest. Again, even on the artistic side, it is not with every branch of the varied applications of glass that we shall be occupied in this work. By an anomaly of the English language, whos...