Books on Glass Bottles
#1 ANTIQUE GLASS BOTTLES Their History and Evolution (1500-1850)
By Willy Van den Bossche – My favorite because it is the most complete and informative book on old glass production that there is available to us.
#2 EARLY AMERICAN GLASS
By Rhea Mansfield Knittle 1927 – My second favorite book because it answered a 50+ year old question I had.
#3 The Illustrated Guide to COLLECTING BOTTLES
By Cecil Munsey 1970 – My third favorite book because it is just fantastic in providing information on old glass production.
#4 THE MOUTH BLOWN BOTTLE
By Grace Kendrick – This lady’s books are great because she got to know bottle making and really got into learning how-to-do-it.
#5 THE ANTIQUE BOTTLE COLLECTOR
By Grace Kendrick
#6 AMERICAN GLASS Material: From Pages of Antiques Magazine.
Vol. I BLOWN AND MOLDED Edited by Marvin D. Schwartz
Vol. II PRESSED AND CUT Edited by Robert E. DiBartolomeo
#7 COLLECTORS GUIDE to the SARATOGA TYPE MINERAL WATERS
By Donald Tucker
#8 OUT OF THE MOLD by Gay LeCleire Taylor
For: The Museum of American Glass at Wheaton Village, Millville, NJ.
#9 AMERICAN GLASS By George S and Helen McKearin 1941
#10 Two Hundred Years of AMERICAN BLOWN GLASS
By George S. and Helen McKearin 1948-1950
#11 AMERICAN BOTTLES AND FLASKS
By Helen McKearin & Kenneth Wilson 1978
#12 OLD BOTTLE FOSTER and His Glass Making Decendents
By John Morrill Foster
#13 NEW ENGLAND GLASS & GLASSMAKING
By Kenneth M. Wilson
#14 OLD GLASS European and American By N. Hudson Moore 1924
#15 WONDERS OF GLASS & BOTTLE MAKING (To 1871)
OLD GLASS: EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN by N. Hudson Moore
#16 OLD GLASS: EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN by N. Hudson Moore. “With 265 Superb Photographic Illustrations.” Hardcopy with dust jacket. Copyright 1924 with six printings and a NEW EDITION, December 1935 (this is the 1935 edition).
It is a great book covering the art of glass making and early European Glass operations of manufacturing – early American Glass Makers and early glass products. It has over 265 illustrations of glass products relative to these chapters and sections, all on.392 pages.
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