Author: Arthur Churchill
Title: History in Glass: A Coronation Exhibition of Royal, Historical, Political, and Social Glasses Commemorating Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Events in English History
Description: London, Arthur Churchill Ltd. 1937. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this commemorative work on the history of English glass, with the original slip case. First edition. With the vanishingly scarce original slip case. A coronation exhibition for the ascension of George VI and his wife, Elizabeth, as king and queen of the United Kingdom. Illustrated with forty-four plates. Collated complete. The history of eighteenth and nineteenth century events in English history catalogued in glass, including: a Restoration goblet, a betrothal glass, baptismal glasses, portrait glasses, Nelson glasses, Wellington glasses, Jubilee glasses, coronation glasses, and much more. Presented by Arthur Churchill Ltd. a company specialising in the buying and selling of old English and Irish glass. In the original full green cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor wear and light sunning to the spine. Original slip case is also very smart with light wear to the extremities only. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine .

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