PREFACE

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER II THE PRIMITIVE GLASS OF THE EGYPTIANS AND SYRIANS

CHAPTER III THE LATER GREEK GLASS AND THE MOULDED AND CAST GLASS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE

CHAPTER IV THE BLOWN GLASS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE

CHAPTER V EARLY CHRISTIAN GLASS, BYZANTINE GLASS, AND THE GLASS

CHAPTER VI GLASS FROM ANGLO-SAXON AND FRANKISH TOMBS. THE SO-CALLED HEDWIG GLASSES

CHAPTER VII MEDIAEVAL TREATISES ON GLASS

CHAPTER VIII GLASS OF THE LATER MIDDLE AGES IN WESTERN EUROPE

CHAPTER IX THE ENAMELLED GLASS OF THE SARACENS

CHAPTER X THE ENAMELLED GLASS OF THE SARACENS continued

CHAPTER XI THE GLASS OF VENICE THE ORIGINS BEADS

CHAPTER XII THE ENAMELLED VENETIAN GLASS OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY

CHAPTER XIII VARIETIES OF VENETIAN GLASS EARLY LITERATURE

CHAPTER XIV THE FRENCH GLASS OF THE RENAISSANCE

CHAPTER XV THE RENAISSANCE GLASS OF THE SPANISH NETHERLANDS AND OF SPAIN

CHAPTER XVI THE GLASS OF GERMANY The Green Glass of the Rhine and the Netherlands Enamelled Glass

CHAPTER XVII THE GLASS OF GERMANY continued German Cut and

CHAPTER XVIII DUTCH GLASS OF THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES

CHAPTER XIX ENGLISH GLASS OF THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES

CHAPTER XX ENGLISH GLASS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

CHAPTER XXI THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY GLASS OF PERSIA, INDIA, AND CHINA

CHAPTER XXII CONTEMPORARY GLASS

INDEX

Transcriber's Notes

In two instances, the letter N has been printed with a macron above it. This has been represented as [=N].

Some presumed printer's errors have been corrected. These are listed in a second transcriber's note at the end of the text.