Paperweights : Flowers which Clothe the Meadows

166pp. Profusely, richly illustrated in colour. Black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles (very slightly rounded at spine tips). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Deep grey endpapers. In its original, now heavily bump at edges with a few short tears resulting in minor loss, chipped around base of spine, but just about complete and fitting). A gloriously illustrated study of the history and development of the glass paperweight, from their first appearance in Europe in the 1840s, through the classic period when the art form reached a pinnacle in England in the mid 19th century, its development in Venice and Murano and the French excellence, with a brief history of collecting paperweights too.