5000 YEARS OF GLASS

This is a new edition of this definitive world history of glassmaking and decorative techniques from 2500 BC, updated to cover the f irst decade of the 21st century. This classic book traces the history of glassmaking from its origins in Western Asia some 5000 year s ago, through the invention of glassblowing around the first century BC, to the introduction of mechanised processes and new styles in the 19th and 20th centuries. It highlights the flourishing industries of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, the extraordinary achiev ements o...[Read more]