A treatise on the origin, progressive improvement, and present state of the manufacture of porcelain and glass
George Richardson Porter's 1832 technical history of porcelain and glass manufacture, issued in Philadelphia by Carey & Lea for manufacturers and general readers. Wood engravings show kilns and furnaces in cutaway section and exterior view, keyed with letters, plus workshop scenes of glassblowers at the bench; useful for hatched brickwork, industrial diagrams and figures at work.
