Curiosities of Glass Making

PELLATT, Aspley.  CURIOSITIES OF GLASS MAKING.

London: David Bogue, 1849. 4to. Publisher's cloth. viii, 144 pages, 6 chromolithographic plates. First edition.

Pellatt's manual and history of glass-making was the most important book on the subject for over a hundred years.  Pellatt, himself, received the Grand Prize for glass-making at London's Great Exposition in 1851.  His firm is still in existence, under the direction of Aspley Pellatt IV.  The book is illustrated throughout with black and white figures and contains six chromolithographic plaes by J.R. Jobbins, a well-known London printer, engraver, lithographer, and publisher.  Some light, sporadic foxing, spine slightly faded and a small spot of discoloration on the front cover, but overall a very good, bright copy.  While there are many copies listed on OCLC, this book is now most uncommon in commerce.  We could find no copy presently for sale on the internet and only two complete copies (both in poor, shaken condition) for sale at auction during the past thirty years.

$1,350.00