Pressed Flint Glass

Pressed flint glass has never been out of production since its introduction at the beginning of the nineteenth century, and vast quantities have been manufactured. This book surveys the development of the processes which transformed glassmaking from a craft into an industry, supplying an expanding consumer market with a wide range of elaborately moulded decorative ware and fittings as well as cheap, serviceable, expendable items. About the author Raymond Notley has a wide knowledge of Victorian and Edwardian decorative and graphic arts. He is reserch contributor to The Glass Cone magazine and edits the Journal of the Carnival Glass Society. He is the author of the Shire Album Carnival Glass (currently out of print).