Old English glassesAn account of glass drinking vessels in England, from early times to the end of the eighteenth centuryWith introductory notices, original documents, etc . Fig. II. (One half.) Fig. 12. (One half.) Fig. 13. (One half.) make, and that a small furnace is not an expensive affair to set up, nor are the componentparts of the most ordinary sort of glass, namely, green, difficult to meet with. There is con-sequently no reason a priori why the Romans should not have erected glass-works, just asthey set up pottery kilns, and established fulling and dyeing and all sorts of other indust
Old English glassesAn account of glass drinking vessels in England, from early times to the end of the eighteenth centuryWith introductory notices, original documents, etc . Fig. II. (One half.) Fig. 12. (One half.) Fig. 13. (One half.) make, and that a small furnace is not an expensive affair to set up, nor are the componentparts of the most ordinary sort of glass, namely, green, difficult to meet with. There is con-sequently no reason a priori why the Romans should not have erected glass-works, just asthey set up pottery kilns, and established fulling and dyeing and all sorts of other industrieswherever they planted their foot and circumstances were favourable. And it seems contraryto the genius of so great a people that lumps only (massae) of unworked metal should havebeen continually obtained from central glass-works, to be used plain or to be coloured bysmaller manufacturers, and that they should not have proceeded in the different provinces upon i6 IN TR OD UCTOR V NO TICES. SEC. IV.
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