| Edward Drummond Libbey, American Glassmaker Contributor(s): Skrabec, Quentin R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 078646335X ISBN-13: 9780786463350 Publisher: McFarland & Company OUR PRICE: $39.55 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics - Art - Biography & Autobiography |
| Dewey: 748.209 |
| LCCN: 2011030559 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.9" W x 9.9" (1 lbs) 242 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Edward Drummond Libbey was a glassmaker, industrialist, artist, innovator and art collector. Both practical and creative, he forever changed the glass industry with the automatic bottle-making machine and automatic sheet glass machine. This work examines the long career of Libbey, particularly his innovation of American flint cut glass, his contributions to the middle-class American table through affordable glassware, and his enormous art glass and painting collections, which eventually formed the basis for the Toledo Museum of Art's collection. Libbey single-handedly revolutionized glassmaking, a craft which had gone virtually unchanged for 2000 years. |