Journal of Glass Studies, Volume XV, 1973

Description

Editors: Spillman, Jane Shadel

Publisher: The Corning Museum of Glass

Pub Date: 1974

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good to Very Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  One very small area of discoloration on front recto edge.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Appears unused.

Notes: The fifteenth 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 I, page 11).  This issue: An article on molded glass, co-authored by Dwight Lanmon (see https://joethebookguy.com/shop/indian/the-pottery-of-zia-pueblo/ ), essays on Middle Eastern and Mesopotamian glass, Sudanese Nubian, and French glass, and an article on “The Estimation of Uranium in Coloured Glass.” (Gulp). RARE.