[Rarebooks] FS: Ancient Glass: Magnificent 2-Volume 1927 Limited Edition

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“Glass, Its Origin, History, Chronology, Technic and Classification to 
the Sixteenth Century”

By Gustavus A. Eisen & Fahim Kouchakji. Published in New York by William 
Edwin Rudge in 1927. Edition limited to 500 sets.

A monumental and important study of ancient glass, focusing primarily on 
glass of the Roman period up to about the Fifth Century, although 
developments from the 6th-16th Centuries are also discussed and 
outlined. Eisen studied examples from numerous private and public 
collections, but his most important source was the collection of Mrs. 
W.H. Moore of New York, on which he based a large part of the work.

What can one say about Gustavus Eisen? A profoundly inquisitive, 
seemingly inexhaustible antiquary, an immigrant from Sweden with his 
brother, Francis, with whom he founded a vineyard in California... Eisen 
also was a specialist in ancient textiles who was sent by Phoebe Hearst, 
in 1902, to Guatemala, and returned with 200 ancient examples, forming 
the world's largest and best-documented collection of 19th century 
Guatemalan textiles, and, not incidentally, a bevy of photographs. He 
authored one of the most authoritative studies of portraits of George 
Washington, a massive three-volume study; he injected himself into the 
controversy and research involving the Holy Grail and Shroud of Turin 
and wrote a monograph on the controversial Great Chalice of Antioch. 
And, as we present here, he authored one of the cornerstone studies of 
ancient glass. Is "impressive" the word I am looking for? Why yes, I 
believe it is...

Hardcover. 2 volumes, 7.5"x10", 768 pages, 10 color and 188 black & 
white plates, 284 line figures in the text; slipcased. Minor soil, but 
otherwise clean and nice. Slipcase wear.  $175

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