Perlen aus Gablonz: Historismus, Jugendstil : Beadsfrom Gablonz: Historicism, Art Nouveau

by Waltraud Neuwirth

$300 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition

Vienna: Selbstverlag Dr. Waltraud Neuwirth, 1994. First edition. 8vo. 560 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, many in color, diagrams, maps. Printed in German and English. History and technical examination of the glass bead industry in Gablonz, a town in the Czech Republic: blown, squeezed, and wound in glass, pressed from plastic matter, the beads from Gablonz take on all imaginable shapes, spheres and olives, cubes and cylinders, rings and discs,

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