Author: BLOCH-DERMANT, JANINE
Title: The Art of French Glass, 1860-1914
Description: New York: Vendome Press, 1980. Hard cover. ISBN: 0865650004. B&W and Color; 9 1/2 x 11 1/2; 201 pages; Hard cover has purple boards with black spine with gold lettering. Slight rubbing to boards. Red endpapers. DJ has light rubbings, scuffing. Pages are clean and tight. Lavishly illustrated with 300+ color and b/w photographs. "In France, during the wonderful turn-of-the-century era known as 'The Belle Epoque,' the feeling ran high that the age's Art Nouveau manner was nowhere better expressed than in the poetic and evocative glass of Emile Galle...Like the painters and the poets, the glassmakers sought to enhance life by liberating the past and by making it a continuously self-revitalizing process of experiment and research...." Glossary; bibliography; index. Oversized/4#.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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