English looking-glasses : a study of the glass, frames, and makers (1670-1820)
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: English looking-glasses : a study of the glass, frames, and makers (1670-1820)
Classmark: Bedford Collection A523
Creator(s): Wills, Geoffrey
Additional creator(s): Hayward, J F (1916-1983) (Writer of foreword); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Publisher: Country Life Limited
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1965
Language: English
Size and medium: 162 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/731447
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019932275105181
Description
Includes bibliographical references (pages 146-147) and index.
The looking-glass frame -- Stuart and Early Georgian -- Rococo -- Neo-classical to Regency -- Glass -- A brief history of plate-glass manufacture in England -- The composition and manufacture of looking-glass plates -- Grinding, polishing, diamonding and foiling of plates -- The illustrations -- Parliamentary proceedings relating to the Cast Glass Company -- Verre Églomisé and Chinese 'mirror-pictures' -- Papier-maché and other compositions -- Speculum or steel -- A directory of London makers and sellers of looking-glasses.
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A523: Contains loose article: Looking -Glass Frames by Desmond Fitz-gerald (Apollo, May 1966, volume 83, number 49).
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A523: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: MF/1.
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