COLLECTING OLD GLASS ENGLISH AND IRISH

THE COLLECTORS’ POCKET SERIES
EDITED BY SIR JAMES YOXALL, M.P.

COLLECTING
OLD GLASS

• THE COLLECTORS’ POCKET SERIES
  EDITED BY SIR JAMES YOXALL, M.P.
  Each Volume Illustrated. Price 3s 6d net
  
• Collecting Old Glass
• By J. H. Yoxall
• Collecting Old Miniatures
• By J. H. Yoxall
• Collecting Old Lustre Ware
• By W. Bosanko
• Collecting Old Pewter
• By H. J. L. J. Massé
• Collecting Old Prints
• By E. Gray
• Collecting Old Water-Colours
• By R. W. Howes
• (Other Volumes in Preparation)
• London: William Heinemann, Ltd

COLLECTING
OLD GLASS
ENGLISH AND IRISH

BY J. H. YOXALL

Author of “The Wander Years” “The A B C
about Collecting” “More about Collecting”

The glass of fashion and the mould of form: Hamlet, iii. 1

LONDON
WILLIAM HEINEMANN, LTD

First published January 1916
New Impression March 1925

Printed in Great Britain

PREFACE

Diffuseness has been avoided, but this, I hope, has enabled me to make the book the more lucid, as well as the more succinct. At any rate, it affords hints, general rules, and warnings more numerous and more practical than any published until now; I have also tried to give to it a quality which reviewers have found present in my other books on Collecting—that is, a simplicity and clearness of explanation, done at the most difficult and necessary points, and in an interesting way. Moreover, this book has had the great advantage of revision (before printing) by Mr. G. F. Collins, of 53 the Lanes, Brighton, a pupil of Mr. Hartshorne’s, and well known to all principal collectors of old glass. Most of the illustrations represent typical pieces in my own collection, but for some of the finest I have to thank the kindness of Mrs. Devitt, of Herontye, East Grinstead, a collector indeed. The illustrations do not represent relative sizes to the same scale.

J. H. YOXALL

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