From goblets to gaslights
Subtitle: the Scottish glass industry, 1750-2006
By: [Jill Turnbull]
Publisher: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781908332127
Subjects: Glass manufacture; History; Glassware; Glass trade
Notes: DVD includes introductory pages and .pdf version of Holyrood Glass Works Glass manufacturer's sample book (CMGL BIB 36411, TP868 .H76 O *).

Includes index and bibliography (pages 303-305) and index.
Table of contents: title: Glossary of terms; title: A brief look at the excise; title: The Verreville, Gallowgate and Gorbals Glassworks, Glasgow; title: The glassworks at Leith; title: The Caledonian, Mid Lothian and Portobello Glassworks; title: The Holyrood Flint Glass Works; title: Edinburgh Crystal and its predecessors; title: The Alloa Glassworks; title: The glassworks at Greenock and later in Glasgow; title: Glasgow Glassworks in the nineteenth century; title: James Couper & Sons; title: The West Lothian Flint Glass Works, Bathgate; title: The North British Glassworks in Perth; title: Lights, medicine and music; title: Cut glass and sulphides; title: The Forth Glass Works, Glasgow; title: Pressed and moulded glass; title: Caithness Glass, "an act of faith"; title: Clear and coloured glass; title: Engraved, sand-blasted and intaglio glass; title: Appendix 1. Glass listed in invoices from the Edinburgh Glasshouse Company between 1785 and 1808; title: Appendix 2. James Peddie, The City Flint Glass Works, Edinburgh; title: Appendix 3. An extract from the Report of the Commission on Children's Employments under the headin of The Glass Manufacturers of Glasgow.