[Rarebooks] FS: Presentation copy of Classic American Glass reference

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

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Hunter, Frederick W. "STIEGEL GLASS"

Boston and New York; Houghton Mifflin Company: 1914.
Edition limited to 420 signed copies.

Although Hunter, along with his brother-in-law / collaborator J.B.
Kerfoot, was overzealous in his attempts to attribute much too much glass
to the Stiegel factory, his book nonetheless "set a standard of excellence
for factory histories that seldom has been surpassed." (Kirk Nelson
writing in Ames & Ward).

Nelson continues, "Hunter's work remains the most comprehensive study of
this celebrated eighteenth-century Pennsylvania glass manufactory. In the
first two major sections Hunter provides a detailed biography of Henry
William Stiegel and illuminates the account with information drawn from
period documents. Typescripts of many of these documents are presented in
the Appendix...the second section explores the materials, techniques and
products of the Stiegel glasshouses."

Hunter's style and presentation have also been widely praised; Helen
McKearin notes in her preface to the Dover edition that "in all American
glass literature, "Stiegel Glass" alone approaches belles letters." George
McKearin once wrote "As a beginner in collecting American glass I pored
for hours over the pages of this fascinating book." An important,
well-written and researched study of American glassmaking, despite the
fact that the actual pieces attributed to Stiegel too often turned out to
be the products of other factories.

Hardcover. 7.5"x10.5", 272 pages, 8 color plates and 159 b/w
illustrations; publisher’s yellow cloth with gilt titles and a blue &
white pitcher on the cover; covers with moderate soil and some scuffing;
spine darkened.

With a warm Christmas inscription- “To my [illegible] friends and
collectors Otto and Mildred, kindly accept this my maiden effort on
American glass of the Pre-Revolutionary period. F.H. Hunter -Christmas
1915”. [30802] $250.00


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