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Glass Throughout Time: History and Technology of Glassmaking from the Ancient World to the Present

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I bought this for my Uncle as a Christmas present after a visit to Corning Museum of Glass this past summer. he wanted a book that detailed the history of glass. This was a homerun- he loved it!!!! Only recommendations to the publisher- add a glossery and index for reference.

the main problems i have with this book are that the title is extremely misleading - it should be more like "a short catalog of glass items in our museum and some very scholarly attempts to get another publication," or something very similar. it's nothing, and i mean nothing, like a history of glass - not even an artistic history of glass. it was prepared by numerous authors and it appears that the editor didn't give sufficient direction, since the text is pretty disjointed. also, the language is very erudite and, to be entirely honest, duller than dirt. i'm pretty sure that all of the authors are scholarly people, who have published peer-reviewed articles in their respective trade journals, and who saw this book as an opportunity to add one more publication to their bibliographies. unfortunately, this is not the same as writing for the general public.

the photographs are good. however, the photographer(s) is/are not specifically mentioned, even though there's a page and a half of credits.