Old English glasses. An account of glass drinking vessels in England, from early times to the end of the eighteenth century. With introductory notices, original documents, etc (1897)
Hartshorne, Albert, b. 1839 · London, New York, E. Arnold · leaf 51
st asthey set up pottery kilns, and established fulling and dyeing and all sorts of other industrieswherever they planted their foot and circumstances were favourable. And it seems contraryto the genius of so great a people that lumps only (massae) of unworked metal should havebeen continually… … their own lines, and prepared and fused the local material in all its stages, with the assistance of natives pressed into service. In fact, the large quantity of vessels of green glass that has been found throughout Britain—to take only one province—would quite tend to indicate a number more or…
Glass manufacture · Glassware -- Great Britain · Wine and wine making -- Great Britain
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