Glass Circle: No. 4: Papers for Collectors - Softcover

Glass Circle: No. 4: Papers for Collectors book by R.J. Charleston

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> It has often been rubbed into us, in the literature of glass, that English engraving was never up to much, and that in any case the first engravers lin this country were of German or Bohemian erigin (which is no doubt true). Perhaps for this reason -a generally underdog sort of attitude to the subject-little really seems to have been done to identify the wheel-engraved work of the 18th and early 19th century, an omission encouraged also by the circumstance that English engraving of this period seems on the whole to be in fact somewhat stereotyped and unenterprising. Perhaps when Dr. Seddon gives us his paper in May, we shall begin to look at this question with new eyes, I My task is in some ways simpler, since I pro- pose to stick to engravers whose names are known and sometimes also whose works are known through signatures. I should also make it clear that I shall be dealing only with wheel-engravers, and not with practitioners of the diamond-point. Although I do not propose to give a long his- torical re. Artikel-Nr. Batch-FM430-VG-9828

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