A History of Glassforming

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Summary: Fascinating history & techniques
Review: This book is a nicely illustrated and produced book, chock full of interesting glass technique through history. There are some good technique and apparatus ideas for modern day art glass workers, and lots of interesting information for other fans of glass art. Unfortunately, the writing style is some of the worst I've ever seen in print. It is grammatical, but so unfocused as to be almost incoherent. However, as a part-time glass artist, I find that the scope of glass history and technology revealed in just the illustrations and their captions is so full of unique useful and interesting information about working with glass that this book is well worth perusing. It is worth 5 stars for content, but I'm giving it 4 because of the awful writing.