Chapter II: Preface: , v

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, ix

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS ON GLASS, xxii

KEY TO THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL LIST, xxviii

CHAPTER I. Introduction, 1

CHAPTER II. Primitive Glass of the Egyptians and Syrians, 18

CHAPTER III. Later Greek Glass and the Moulded and Cast Glass of
the Roman Empire, 43

CHAPTER IV. The Blown Glass of the Roman Empire, 59

CHAPTER V. Early Christian Glass, Byzantine Glass, and the Glass of
the Middle Ages in the East and the West, 89

CHAPTER VI. Glass from Anglo-Saxon and Frankish Tombs. The
so-called Hedwig Glasses, 107

CHAPTER VII. Mediæval Treatises on Glass, 118

CHAPTER VIII. Glass of the Later Middle Ages in Western Europe, 132

CHAPTER IX. The Enamelled Glass of the Saracens, 144

CHAPTER X. The Enamelled Glass of the Saracens (_continued_), 161

CHAPTER XI. The Glass of Venice—The Origins—Beads, 174

CHAPTER XII. The Enamelled Venetian Glass of the Fifteenth Century, 192

CHAPTER XIII. Varieties of Venetian Glass—Early Literature, 200

CHAPTER XIV. The French Glass of the Renaissance, 220

CHAPTER XV. The Renaissance Glass of the Spanish Netherlands and of
Spain, 240

CHAPTER XVI. The Glass of Germany. The Green Glass of the Rhine and
the Netherlands—Enamelled Glass, 251

CHAPTER XVII. The Glass of Germany (_continued_). German Cut and
Engraved Glass—The Ruby Glass of Kunckel—_Milch_ Glass, 276

CHAPTER XVIII. Dutch Glass of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth
Centuries, 294

CHAPTER XIX. English Glass of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth
Centuries, 299

CHAPTER XX. English Glass of the Eighteenth Century, 321

CHAPTER XXI. The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Glass of
Persia, India, and China, 337