Starting to Collect Antique Glass

Published by ACC Art Books, 1999, hardcover, illustrated, 189 pages, index, condition: new.

Glass is to be found everywhere, from delicate wineglasses to ornamental lamps that illuminate and decorate. This book is a valuable starting point for enthusiasts. It tells you where to hunt for bargains and how to add rarities to a growing collection. An important section offers tips on what is available within any price range. It is filled with invaluable advice. How do you spot repairs or re-polishing? How can you avoid the proliferation of fakes while you learn to distinguish fine glass from ordinary? John Sandon's sensible guidance will prevent many costly mistakes. This book tells the whole story of glass, from its discovery in ancient Egypt right through to the fascinating world of the twentieth century and post-war design. The carefully chosen illustrations, all in colour, provide stunning contrasts between fine old Venetian and Art Nouveau masterpieces and quite ordinary decanters and Victorian moulded bottles. Alongside costly rarities are inexpensive novelty glass objects anyone can find easily.

This book is divided into well-defined chapters on just about everything you want to know about Antique glass from manufacture to design to availability. There are lots of color pictures that are well-described. What it is not is a price catalog.