He is also desirous of acknowledging the assistance he has received from the Authorities of the British and Dublin Museums, and also to the late Mr J. Herbert Bailey, to whom and to “The Connoisseur” he is indebted for several of the illustrations.
His indebtedness to the great work of Mr A. Hartshorne is one which he shares with every writer who takes as his subject “Old English Glass.”
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| [I.] | Introductory | [1] |
| [II.] | Early English Glass | [27] |
| [III.] | Eighteenth-century Glass | [55] |
| [IV.] | Memorial Glasses | [95] |
| [V.] | Bristol and Nailsea Glass | [115] |
| [VI.] | Irish Glass | [128] |
| [VII.] | Curious and Freak Glasses | [154] |
| [VIII.] | Frauds and Imitations | [166] |
| [IX.] | Some Hints to Collectors | [182] |
| [Catalogue of Prices of Principal Pieces of Glass] | [191] |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| Early Bristol Glass; landscape painted by Edkin | [Frontispiece] | |
| FIG. | ||
| [1.] | Elizabethan Glass (Brit. Mus. Coll.) | }To face page[ 42] |
| [2.] | Posset Cup (Charles II.) | |
| [3.] | Feeding Cup (William III.) | }” [ 48] |
| [4.] | Glass Panel (Charles II.) | |
| [5.] | Glass Tankard with Coin blown in Base | }”[ 50] |
| [6.] | Coin blown in Base of Tankard | |
| [7.] | Air-twisted Stem Glasses | ” [62] |
| [8.] | Air-twisted Button and Baluster Stem Glasses | ” [66] |
| [9.] | Opaque-twisted Stem and Rose Glasses | ” [68] |
| [10.] | Double Ogee Bowls | ” [72] |
| [11.] | Ale Glasses and Sweetmeat Glasses | ” [74] |
| [12.] | Eighteenth-century Drinking Glasses | ” [76] |
| [13.] | Rummers and Baluster Stem Glasses | ” [84] |
| [14.] | Decanters and Salt-cellars (Eighteenth Cent.) | ” [90] |
| [15.] | Candlesticks and Tapersticks | ” [92] |
| [16.] | Jacobean Rushlight Holder and Wine Glasses | ” [94] |
| [17.] | Jacobite Toasting Glasses | ” [96] |
| [18.] | Jacobite Goblets | ”[100] |
| [19.] | Jacobite Glass | ”[102] |
| [20.] | Memorial Toasting Glasses | ”[106] |
| [21.] | Memorial Glasses (Various) | ”[108] |
| [22.] | A Nelson Glass and George IV. Coronation Glass | ”[110] |
| [23.] | Commemoration Glasses | ”[112] |
| [24.] | Tankards and Grog Glasses | ”[114] |
| [25.] | Old Bristol Glass Decanter and Mug | ”[120] |
| [26.] | Bristol Glass Vases and Candlesticks | ”[122] |
| [27.] | Bristol Glass Vases and Castors | ”[124] |
| [28.] | Early Nailsea Jugs | ”[126] |
| [29.] | Nailsea Jug and Mug | ”[128] |
| [30.] | Early Irish Glass | ”[130] |
| [31.] | Old Irish Salad Bowls and Celery Glasses | ”[132] |
| [32.] | Old Waterford Centrepiece, with Collar | ”[134] |
| [33.] | Old Waterford Preserve Jars and Bowls | ”[136] |
| [34.] | (1) Old Cork Decanters; (2) Old Waterford Decanters | ”[138] |
| [35.] | Old Cut Irish Decanters and Finger-basins | ”[140] |
| [36.] | Early Irish Fruit Dishes | ”[150] |
| [37.] | Masonic, Toasting, and Freak Glasses; an Early Cambridge Yard Ale Glass | Page [160] |
| [38.] | Saxon Glass | ”[30] |
| [39.] | Various Styles of Cutting | ” [7] |
| [40.] | Examples of Baluster Stems and Tear Glasses | ”[57] |
| [41.] | Tear Glasses | ”[61] |
| [42.] | Old English Glasses | ”[65] |