From Goblets To Gaslights

Glossary of terms -- A brief look at the excise -- 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 -- 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 headin of The Glass Manufacturers of Glasgow.

Good Press presents the classics of queer literature by the most authentic and controversial authors of the past: Orlando by Virginia Woolf The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Cecil Dreeme by Theodore Winthrop Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu Joseph and His Friend by Bayard Taylor This Finer Shadow by Harlan Cozad McIntosh Bertram Cope's Year by Henry Blake Fuller The Sins of the Cities of the Plain by Jack Saul The Green Carnation by Robert Hichens The History of Sir Richard Calmady by Lucas Malet

Green Carnation was a symbol of homosexuality and was worn by the famous author Oscar Wilde. Today the flower has come to be associated with gay love and acceptance all over the world. The present collection celebrates Wilde and other authors from the past who celebrated and represented gay love in their novels: The Picture of Dorian Gray Joseph and His Friend Bertram Cope's Year Cecil Dreeme This Finer Shadow The Satyricon The Sins of the Cities of the Plain