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                              _OLD GLASS
                                  AND
                          HOW TO COLLECT IT_

                            [Illustration]


    _The Standard Book on the Subject._

    A HISTORY OF ENGLISH STAINED
    GLASS WINDOWS.

    By MAURICE DRAKE. Fully Illustrated in Colour
    and Half-tone. Foolscap folio. £2, 2s. net.

    “One of the most beautiful, nay, most sumptuous, books
    produced in recent years, and from that point of view the Author
    and the publisher, the artist and the printer, and, indeed, also
    the binder, are to be heartily congratulated. But it is also an
    interesting book to read, although the subject is not everyone’s
    subject, for it is written, not merely with knowledge, which one
    can find anywhere on most subjects, but with knowledge touched
    with humanity, which is the kind of knowledge that we want in
    a book.”--_Daily Chronicle._


    FIRST STEPS IN COLLECTING.

    By Mrs GRACE VALLOIS, Author of “Antiques
    and Curios in our Homes.” 64 Illustrations.
    Picture Cover. 6s. net.

    In this book G. M. Vallois has grappled successfully with the
    problem of how to give the amateur a slight general knowledge
    of a wide subject, without deluging him with technical details.


    ANTIQUES AND CURIOS IN OUR HOMES.

    By G. M. VALLOIS. 61 Illustrations. 6s. net.

In addition to being interesting to those who possess old furniture,
etc., it should appeal to young persons making a home, as, even though
they may not be able to buy Antique Furniture, it is of educational
value to them, inasmuch as it teaches in a most fascinating manner the
difference between Sheraton and Chippendale, between Wedgwood and Willow
Pattern, etc.

[Illustration: A fine specimen of Early Bristol Glass, with landscape
painted by Edkin.]




                           OLD GLASS AND HOW
                             TO COLLECT IT

                                  BY
                            J. SYDNEY LEWIS

                              ILLUSTRATED

                                LONDON
                         T. WERNER LAURIE LTD.
                      30 NEW BRIDGE STREET, E.C.4


The Author desires to express his best thanks to Miss Whitmore Jones, Mr
Cole of Law, Foulsham & Cole, Mr A. Edwards of Messrs Edwards Limited,
for their kind permission to include examples of old English and Irish
glass from their Collections, and to Messrs Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge
for allowing him to include the list of prices fetched by various
specimens at their Sales.

He is also desirous of acknowledging the assistance he has received from
the Authorities of the British and Dublin Museums, and also to the late
Mr J. Herbert Bailey, to whom and to “The Connoisseur” he is indebted
for several of the illustrations.

His indebtedness to the great work of Mr A. Hartshorne is one which he
shares with every writer who takes as his subject “Old English Glass.”




CONTENTS


CHAPTER                                                 PAGE

I. INTRODUCTORY                                            1

II. EARLY ENGLISH GLASS                                   27

III. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY GLASS                             55

IV. MEMORIAL GLASSES                                      95

V. BRISTOL AND NAILSEA GLASS                             115

VI. IRISH GLASS                                          128

VII. CURIOUS AND FREAK GLASSES                           154

VIII. FRAUDS AND IMITATIONS                              166

IX. SOME HINTS TO COLLECTORS                             182

CATALOGUE OF PRICES OF PRINCIPAL PIECES OF
GLASS                                                    191




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS


Early Bristol Glass; landscape painted by Edkin....._Frontispiece_

FIG.

1. Elizabethan Glass (Brit. Mus. Coll.) }
                                        } _To face page_ 42
2. Posset Cup (Charles II.)             }

3. Feeding Cup (William III.) }
                              } ” 48
4. Glass Panel (Charles II.)  }

5. Glass Tankard with Coin blown in Base }
                                         } ” 50
6. Coin blown in Base of Tankard         }

7. Air-twisted Stem Glasses.....” 62

8. Air-twisted Button and Baluster Stem Glasses.....” 66

9. Opaque-twisted Stem and Rose Glasses.....” 68

10. Double Ogee Bowls.....” 72

11. Ale Glasses and Sweetmeat Glasses.....” 74

12. Eighteenth-century Drinking Glasses.....” 76

13. Rummers and Baluster Stem Glasses.....” 84

14. Decanters and Salt-cellars (Eighteenth Cent.).....” 90

15. Candlesticks and Tapersticks.....” 92

16. Jacobean Rushlight Holder and Wine Glasses.....” 94

17. Jacobite Toasting Glasses.....” 96

18. Jacobite Goblets.....” 100

19. Jacobite Glass.....” 102

20. Memorial Toasting Glasses.....” 106

21. Memorial Glasses (Various).....” 108

22. A Nelson Glass and George IV. Coronation Glass.....” 110

23. Commemoration Glasses.....” 112

24. Tankards and Grog Glasses.....” 114

25. Old Bristol Glass Decanter and Mug.....” 120

26. Bristol Glass Vases and Candlesticks.....” 122

27. Bristol Glass Vases and Castors.....” 124

28. Early Nailsea Jugs.....” 