American glassware, old and new : a sketch of the glass industry in the United States and manual for collectors of historical bottles
A 1900 Philadelphia guide by Edwin Atlee Barber, a glass-industry historian, written for collectors of historical bottles and for readers of American glassmaking. Its pictures show flasks and bottles with embossed portraits of presidents and a monument-like ornamental frame, printed in single colour, offering designers period cameo and medallion motifs with lettered borders.
