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	1	Rush, James The Ingenious Beilbys Barrie and Jenkins 1973 0214654125 / 9780214654121 First Edition Hardback with Dust Wrapper. Very Good. Worn With 98 mono and colour plates. Wrapper (now protected) has wear and two closed tears. 168pp including bibliography and index. William Beilby (1740–1819) was a British glassworker who produced eminent enamelled glass during the later half of the 18c. Beilby's father William Senior was a goldsmith and jeweller in Durham. Beilby, along with his brothers Richard, Ralph and Thomas were sent to grammar school there. Richard and William, the oldest two, later went as apprentices to Birmingham, the former learning seal engraving and the latter enamelling and drawing. But the business of William senior failed, and in 1757 the whole family moved to Newcastle upon Tyne, where William senior died 8 years later. Richard also died afterwards. William and his sister Mary (1749-97) worked as enamellers for local glass makers. As Ralph emerged as the business head of the family, Mary spent much of her time with Beilby, who had fallen in love with medieval Newcastle. Beilby was at once fascinated by the thriving glass industry about him, and it seems that it was at the Closegate in 1761 that Beilby became the first man in England, possibly the world, to fire enamels into glass, so that they became virtually part of the glass itself. 675181 Price: 12.00 GBP
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