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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Images and Archival Material Glossary of Terms Introduction A Brief Look at the Excise Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18
The Verreville, Gallowgate and Gorbals Glassworks, Glasgow The Glassworks at Leith The Caledonian, Mid Lothian and Portobello Glassworks The Holyrood Flint Glass Works Edinburgh Crystal and its Predecessors The Alloa Glassworks The Glassworks at Greenock and Later in Glasgow Glasgow Glassworks in the Nineteenth Century James Couper & Sons The West Lothian Flint Glass Works, Bathgate The North British Glassworks in Perth Lights, Medicine and Music Cut Glass and Sulphides The Forth Glass Works, Glasgow Pressed and Moulded Glass Caithness Glass, ‘An Act of Faith’ Clear and Coloured Glass Engraved, Sand-blasted and Intaglio Glass
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Appendix 1: Glass listed in invoices from the Edinburgh Glasshouse Company between 1785 and 1808 Appendix 2: James Peddie, The City Flint Glass Works, Edinburgh Appendix 3: An extract from the Report of the Commission on Children’s Employments under the heading of The Glass Manufacturers of Glasgow
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