Journal of Glass Studies, Vol. 49, 2007

Published since 1959, the Journal of Glass Studies is the only academic publication devoted entirely to the scholarship of the art, history, and early technology of glass.

This 292-page volume features 15 articles on a variety of glass topics, including:

• Frederick Carder's 1902 trip to glasshouses across Germany, Bohemia, and Austria - Jane Shadel Spillman, curator of American glass at The Corning Museum of Glass.
• Early Christian finds from the Museum Basilica, Philippi - Anastasios Antonaras, curator of antiquities at the Museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessaloniki, Greece.
• The alchemist Johann Rudolph Glauber - Werner Loibl, former director of the Spessartmuseum in Lohr a.M., Germany (article in German).
• The Muranese glassmaker Antonio Salviati - Paolo Zecchin, an independent scholar based in Venice (article in Italian).
• The Smithsonian Institution and American glass manufacturers, 1886-1896 - Susan H. Myers, curator at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.