A Treatise on the Progressive Improvement and Present State of Manufacture of Porcelain and Glass.
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Published in London by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green in 1832.
A very early history of the ceramic and glass arts, with a third of the book devoted to ceramics and two-thirds to glass. According to Solon, the ceramics portion is largely based on the works of DeMilly, Brongniart and other French writers. It includes information on the history of potting, a description of clays, tools, firing and glazing, the manufacture of tobacco pipes, and porcelain manufacture in China. The portion of the book devoted to glass includes a history of the ancient development of glass, ingredients used in making glass, construction of furnaces, manufacture of flint glass, crown and broad glass, bottle glass, plate glass, artificial gems, making glass from bones, using blow pipes, forming lenses, colouring glass, staining and painting glass, cutting, engraving and etching glass, glass defects, gravity, and devitrification.
This was published as part of the Rev. Dionysius Lardner's 'Cabinet Cyclopedia' series, and the text has been attributed to George Richardson Porter. [Duncan 10345].
Hardcover. 4.5"x7", decorative engraved title page, xiv + 334 pages, with 50 wood-engraved text figures; publisher's red cloth with paper spine label. Covers faded around the edges, and with some wear; label chipped and soiled. Contents with some scattered browning and foxing.
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