[Rarebooks] FS: Stiegel Glass - New Jersey Antique Glassware -1914 Limited Edition

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, Ephemera & Photographs]

“Stiegel Glass” by Frederick W. Hunter. Published in Boston and New York 
by Houghton Mifflin Company in 1914. Edition limited to 420 signed 
copies.

A classic, well-written and researched study of American glassmaking. As 
glass historian Kirk Nelson, writing in Ames & Ward's bibliography of 
American antiques, noted, Frederick William Hunter "set a standard of 
excellence for factory histories that seldom has been surpassed." 
Although Hunter, working in collaboration with his brother-in-law and 
fellow Americana collector J.B. Kerfoot, was overzealous in his attempts 
to attribute much too much glass to the Stiegel factory, his book 
nonetheless "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 of 'Stiegel Glass' 
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."

Hunter was a well-known collector of antique glass of all kinds, and 
much of his collection of American glass was presented to the 
Metropolitan Museum of Art's American Wing galleries in 1913.

Hardcover. 7.5"x10.5", 272 pages, 8 color plates and 159 black & white 
illustrations; publisher's yellow cloth with gilt titles and a blue & 
white pitcher on the cover. The covers have some wear and soil (please 
see the photos, above and below). The book itself has some minor soil, 
but otherwise is clean and nice, with a tight binding.  Warmly inscribed 
to friends for Christmas by Hunter.  $150

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