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Excerpt from American Glass American glassmaking was guided from its beginnings in the Seventeenth Century by trained craftsmen from Italy, Belgium, Holland, Germany, France, and England, and the traditions and technical practices Of European glassmakers were brought to early American glasshouses. Although American glass in time took on characteristics which were distinctly American in expression, the industry continued to be guided throughout the two centuries of progress by these foreign trained artisans and their descendants down to the third generation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.