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Condición: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Softcover. Condición: Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> Apsley Pellatt is a name that was of some signi- ficance during the last years of the 18th century and for most of the 19th. It stood for a good deal in the glass trade during its most successful years, when the glass of these islands was much in demand overseas as well as at home. This Paper is an attempt at offering a short history of the Pellatt family and some of its achievements, against a background of the stresses and strains of the contemporary glass industry. But the accent will inevitably rest on the Apsley Pellatt who was the fourth of that name, and who lived from 1791 to 1863 (fig. 1). The father of the first Pellatt with the Christian name of Apsley was William Pellatt (1665-1725), sometime High Sheriff of Sussex and of The Friars, Lewes. He married as his first wife Grace, daughter of Apsley Newton of Southover, Lewes. The Newtons were granted land in Sussex in the reign of Henry VIII, and had emigrated from Cheshire, Sir Isaac Newton was descended from a younger branch of the same fam.…

Hardcover. Condición: As New. No Jacket. Hbk, 4to, 367pp, profusely illustr, no dj as issued, fine navy cloth with gilt titles and ornament, an excellent, clean, tight and unmarked copy, as new.