Glass Salt Shakers by Arthur G Peterson. S/C. 196 pp.

First published 1970 by Wallace-Homestead Book Company. This is the second edition. Softcover in good condition with scuff marks. First flyleaf loose, also some back pages. Inside pages clean and unmarked.

For the connoisseur of that marvellous invention, the salt shaker, a rare book about glass shakers by Dr Peterson, considered the leading world expert on salt shakers.

This book is not to be taken with a grain of salt. It is a serious treatise on a serious subject, as collectors of salt shakers would know. Thousands of salt shaker "models" of all shapes and sizes and colours with of without scrapers, agitators, stirring blades and sifters have been patented all over the world. Select your favourites from dozens of photographs and detailed drawings.