MARIACHER, GIOVANNI: ITALIENSKT GLAS FRÅN ANTIKENS ROM TILL VENEDIG. Malmö, Allhems Förlag, 1962. 30 by 24 cm. 246 pp. including 84 colour plates tipped-in. 59 black-and-white text illustrations tipped-in. ¶ First edition in Swedish of Il vetro soffiato, da Roma Antica a Venezia (Milano 1959), translated by Margit Fredriksson. Includes bibliography (pp. 63-4) and indices.
"Survey of glass of Italy from the first century A.D. to the early nineteenth century. Sixty-page introduction is an authoritative outline of the history and technique of Italian glass. It is followed by a collection of 84 color plates of pieces chiefly in the Museo Vetrario in Murano. Descriptive captions to the plates. Classified bibliography, pp. 61-62, with especially full section on Venetian glass"(Ehresmann).
Cf. Ehresmann 1533 & Arntzen/Rainwater P424.Publisher's gilt-lettered linen, dust-jacket (slightly torn).
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