"Glass. Philosophy and Method. Hand-Blown, Sculptured, Colored" by John Burton, published by Bonanza., New York, 1967. 1st Edition; illustrated.

Dust jacket [a little soiling and edge wear: see photos], hard boards, white cloth with black lettering on spine; 7" x 10.1/2"; 274 pages including, a little soiling, very good condition.

A glass artist John Burton (1894-1985) is regarded as the father of modern artistic lampworking. His book "Glass. Philosophy and Method. Hand-Blown, Sculptured, Colored" (1967) is one of the first and finest definitive books on artistic lampworking."In 1965, John Burton, an Englishman living in America, received a Guggenheim grant and used it to travel to Europe, his purpose being to visit all the glass factories in hopes of finding a way to bring glassblowing to the common people. When he returned to America, he seized upon Pyrex as his material and lampworking as his chosen technique. Adapting what he saw at the factories to the small scale of lampworking, Burton developed his own method of blowing glass in a flame in what came to be known as John Burton's method. He successfully made small vessels and sculptures on the ends of glass blowpipes, and used his background as a metallurgist to find and mix chemicals to the borosilicate glass to make compatible colors. In 1968, Burton started a glass workshop at Pepperdine College in Los Angeles with Margaret Youd as his instructor. The students in those workshops carried on and added to John's explorations into making borosilicate color and developed more than 200 formulas of their own." [Excerpt from the "Art Glass Lampwork History" by Robert A. Mickelsen]

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