by:
Bossche, Willy Van den

Publisher:
Antique Collectors' Club
Published:June 1, 2001
ISBN:1851493379
Format:Hardcover
Pages:439

Description: David Westcott Publications, Australia, May 3, 2001
Photographs superb,text well written,easy to understand.Book well bound.Attractive dust jacket,paper used inside of high quality,printing is excellent.

Product Description:
This is the first major comprehensive book on the history and evolution of antique glass bottles, flasks and jars between 1500 and 1850. Lavishly illustrated with specially commissioned colour photography, it depicts 773 bottles and seals carefully chosen from private collections, with only three examples being from museums.

Whilst the collecting of antique drinking glasses is very popular throughout Europe, the collecting of utility bottles, flasks and jars has until recently very much neglected on the Continent in spite of the wide variety of shapes and colours. This book has been written for all collectors, archeologists, museums, libraries,historians, researchers, writers, institutions, bottlemakers, wine and beer enthusiasts, pharmacists and anyone interested in the collecting of antiques and the social history they reflect. It includes the most comprehensive world-wide bibliograpy on glass bottles ever produced, listing 1,150 titles,an extensive glossary and a separate 16-page price guide booklet.

The history and evolution of glass bottles is chronologically (1500-1850, the pre-industrial period) described in a general chapter.

Bottles illustrated in the book are systematically classified in separate chapters by country :Great Britain, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Scandinavia, Alpine Countries, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and America.