[Rarebooks] FS: Glass Cutter to the King of Scotland (1835)

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    “Glass cutter, Glazier, and
     Stained Glass-Maker to the
     King of Scotland”


Cooper, William. "THE CROWN GLASS CUTTER AND GLAZIER'S MANUAL"  Edinburgh;
Oliver & Boyd and Simpkin, Marshall & Co.: 1835.

William Cooper was “Glass cutter, Glazier, and Stained Glass-Maker in
Ordinary to the King of Scotland”. This is a compact and comprehensive
guide to the manufacture, cutting and glazing of glass windows, with much
material on fancy work and stained glass. The 6 plates which illustrate
window designs here are mostly devoted to Medieval and Gothic Revival
styles; the importance of fancy leaded panes and stained glass to that
style of architecture must have assured constant demand for such work, and
hence a demand for instructional books such as this.

The contents begin with a history of glass and description of the process
of manufacturing crown glass, and then go on to crown glass cutting,
packing glass, glazing windows (including “hot house glazing”), cutting
diamonds, and stained & painted glass. The frontispiece shows the interior
of a crown glass house, with the blowers at work, and the decorated title
page illustrates the cone-like exterior of a crown glass house, with smoke
billowing out the top.

Hardcover. 5”x8”, x [ii] 125 pages, plus 19 engraved plates (several
folding) and an illustrated title page; several line illustrations in the
text; errata slip; publisher’s brown cloth with paper cover label; covers
somewhat soiled, worn at tips; frontispiece and decorated title page a bit
browned and with light spotting, rest of text and plates clean. Neatly
rebacked, with new endpapers. [30842] $875.00


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