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| Preface, | [v] |
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| List of Illustrations, | [ix] |
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| Selected Bibliography of Works on Glass, | [xxii] |
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| Key to the Bibliographical List, | [xxviii] |
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| Chapter I. Introduction, | [1] |
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| Chapter II. Primitive Glass of the Egyptians and Syrians, | [18] |
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| Chapter III. Later Greek Glass and the Moulded and Cast Glass of the Roman Empire, | [43] |
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| Chapter IV. The Blown Glass of the Roman Empire, | [59] |
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| Chapter V. Early Christian Glass, Byzantine Glass, and the Glass of the Middle Ages in the East and the West, | [89] |
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| Chapter VI. Glass from Anglo-Saxon and Frankish Tombs. The so-called Hedwig Glasses, | [107] |
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| Chapter VII. Mediæval Treatises on Glass, | [118] |
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| Chapter VIII. Glass of the Later Middle Ages in Western Europe, | [132] |
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| Chapter IX. The Enamelled Glass of the Saracens, | [144] |
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| Chapter X. The Enamelled Glass of the Saracens (continued), | [161] |
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| Chapter XI. The Glass of Venice—The Origins—Beads, | [174] |
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| Chapter XII. The Enamelled Venetian Glass of the Fifteenth Century, | [192] |
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| Chapter XIII. Varieties of Venetian Glass—Early Literature, | [200] |
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| Chapter XIV. The French Glass of the Renaissance, | [220] |
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| Chapter XV. The Renaissance Glass of the Spanish Netherlands and of Spain, | [240] |
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| Chapter XVI. The Glass of Germany. The Green Glass of the Rhine and the Netherlands—Enamelled Glass, | [251] |
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| Chapter XVII. The Glass of Germany (continued). German Cut and Engraved Glass—The Ruby Glass of Kunckel—Milch Glass, | [276] |
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| Chapter XVIII. Dutch Glass of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, | [294] |
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| Chapter XIX. English Glass of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, | [299] |
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| Chapter XX. English Glass of the Eighteenth Century, | [321] |
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| Chapter XXI. The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Glass of Persia, India, and China, | [337] |
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| Chapter XXII. Contemporary Glass, | [356] |
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| Index, | [361] |