Antique Glass Bottles : Their History and Evolution (1500-1850) - A Comprehensive Illustrated Guide With a Worldwide Bibliography of Glass Bottles

This is the first major comprehensive book on the history and evolution of antique glass bottles flasks and jars between 1500 and 1850. Lavishly illustrated with specially commissioned colour photography it depicts 773 bottles and seals carefully chosen from private collections with only three examples being from museums. Whilst the collecting of antique drinking glasses is very popular throughout Europe the collecting of utility bottles flasks and jars has until recently very much neglected on the Continent in spite of the wide variety of shapes and colours. This book has been written for all collectors archeologists museums libraries historians researchers writers institutions bottlemakers wine and beer enthusiasts pharmacists and anyone interested in the collecting of antiques and the social history they reflect. It includes the most comprehensive world-wide bibliograpy on glass bottles ever produced listing 1 150 titles an extensive glossary and a separate 16-page price guide booklet. The history and evolution of glass bottles is chronologically (1500-1850 the pre-industrial period) described in a general chapter. Bottles illustrated in the book are systematically classified in separate chapters by country :Great Britain Belgium Holland Germany Scandinavia Alpine Countries France Italy Spain Portugal and America.