Journal of Glass Studies, Volume IV, 1962

Description

Editors: Perrot, Paul N. (1926-) and Von Saldern, Axel  (1923-2012)

Publisher: The Corning Museum of Glass

Pub Date: 1962

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears.  Lower corner has a bump that extends through the entire volume, probably dropped on that corner at some point.  Upper rear corner has approximately the same problem–an approx. 1″ crease that extends from the upper rear cover corner through the last 20 pages or so.  Compared to those two faults any edge wear is minor.  Upper front cover corner has approx. 1/4″ bend, probably a result of that drop on the upper rear cover corner.

Notes: The fourth issue of this annual journal “…conceived to meet the need for recording those discoveries, interpretations, acquisitions and publications which affect the art and history of glassmaking.”   “The Egyptians were very slow in developing their infant glass industry.  According to our present information they appear to have been the discoverers of glass somewhere around the year 1500 B.C. though there remains the suspicion–it is no more than that–that North Syria may have preceded them in that field, a belief that can be supported only by future excavations.”  (Glass Sculpture in Ancient Egypt, John D. Cooney, Journal of Glass Studies, Volume 1, page 11).  This issue: Mesopotamian glass vessels, Greek glass, Roman glass, German glass, glass engraving.