CHAPTER PAGE I. INTRODUCTORY 1 II. EARLY ENGLISH GLASS 27 III. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY GLASS 55 IV. MEMORIAL GLASSES 95 V. BRISTOL AND NAILSEA GLASS 115 VI. IRISH GLASS 128 VII. CURIOUS AND FREAK GLASSES 154 VIII. FRAUDS AND IMITATIONS 166 IX. SOME HINTS TO COLLECTORS 182 CATALOGUE OF PRICES OF PRINCIPAL PIECES OF GLASS 191 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Early Bristol Glass; landscape painted by Edkin....._Frontispiece_ FIG. 1. Elizabethan Glass (Brit. Mus. Coll.) } } _To face page_ 42 2. Posset Cup (Charles II.) } 3. Feeding Cup (William III.) } } ” 48 4. Glass Panel (Charles II.) } 5. Glass Tankard with Coin blown in Base } } ” 50 6. Coin blown in Base of Tankard } 7. Air-twisted Stem Glasses.....” 62 8. Air-twisted Button and Baluster Stem Glasses.....” 66 9. Opaque-twisted Stem and Rose Glasses.....” 68 10. Double Ogee Bowls.....” 72 11. Ale Glasses and Sweetmeat Glasses.....” 74 12. Eighteenth-century Drinking Glasses.....” 76 13. Rummers and Baluster Stem Glasses.....” 84 14. Decanters and Salt-cellars (Eighteenth Cent.).....” 90 15. Candlesticks and Tapersticks.....” 92 16. Jacobean Rushlight Holder and Wine Glasses.....” 94 17. Jacobite Toasting Glasses.....” 96 18. Jacobite Goblets.....” 100 19. Jacobite Glass.....” 102 20. Memorial Toasting Glasses.....” 106 21. Memorial Glasses (Various).....” 108 22. A Nelson Glass and George IV. Coronation Glass.....” 110 23. Commemoration Glasses.....” 112 24. Tankards and Grog Glasses.....” 114 25. Old Bristol Glass Decanter and Mug.....” 120 26. Bristol Glass Vases and Candlesticks.....” 122 27. Bristol Glass Vases and Castors.....” 124 28. Early Nailsea Jugs.....” 126 29. Nailsea Jug and Mug.....” 128 30. Early Irish Glass.....” 130 31. Old Irish Salad Bowls and Celery Glasses.....” 132 32. Old Waterford Centrepiece, with Collar.....” 134 33. Old Waterford Preserve Jars and Bowls.....” 136 34. (1) Old Cork Decanters; (2) Old Waterford Decanters.....” 138 35. Old Cut Irish Decanters and Finger-basins.....” 140 36. Early Irish Fruit Dishes.....” 150 37. Masonic, Toasting, and Freak Glasses; an Early Cambridge Yard Ale Glass _Page_ 160 38. Saxon Glass.....” 30 39. Various Styles of Cutting.....” 7 40. Examples of Baluster Stems and Tear Glasses.....” 57 41. Tear Glasses.....” 61 42. Old English Glasses.....” 65 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY