References on Milk Glass
This is just a small list of the books that are available on glassware in general. Check your local bookstore or any of the online bookstores for additional books or follow our link’s page to publications.
Most of the books listed can be found in your local library. Members may also request books on loan from the society’s own library.
Also see the following items relating to reference books:
- Cross-Reference of the Ferson, Belknap, Millard, and Newbound books
- Reference Book Updates
- Opaque News Index of Articles
- Downloads
Book List
Note: Many of the following books are out of print, but copies can still be found.
| The Milk Glass Book By: Frank Chiarenza and Jim Slater, members of the NMGCS. With photos from the collections of NMGCS members. |
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| Yesterday’s Milk Glass Today By: Regis & Mary Ferson |
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| 1,000 Toothpick Holders By: William Heacock |
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| 5,000 Open Salts By: William Heacock and Patricia Johnson |
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| A Collector’s Guide to Black Glass By: Marlena Toohey |
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| American Pressed Glass and Figure Bottles By: Albert Christian Revi |
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| American Hobnail By: Shirley Griffith |
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| Collector’s Encyclopedia of Depression Glass By: Gene Florence |
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| Collector’s Encyclopedia of Milk Glass By: Betty & Bill Newbound |
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| Collector’s Guide to Candy Containers By: Douglas M. Dezso, J. Leon Poirier, and Rose D. Poirier |
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| Colored Glassware of the Depression Era 2 By: Hazel Marie Weatherman |
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| Covered Animal Dishes By: Everett Grist |
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| Early American Pressed Glass by Ruth Webb Lee |
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| Early American Pattern Glass 1850 – 1910 by Jenks & Luna |
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| Fenton Glass By: Bill Heacock Fenton Glass – The First 25 years Fenton Glass – The Second 25 years Fenton Glass – The Third 25 years Fenton Glass – 1980’s Decade Fenton Glass – 1990’s Decade |
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| Glass of Faith and Beauty By: Faith Corrigan Available only from author at: WilloughbyAntiques.com
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| Glass Hen on Nest Covered Dishes By: Shirley Smith |
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| Greentown Glass By: James Measell |
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| Handbook of Early American Pressed Glass Patterns By: Ruth Webb Lee |
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| Hobbs, Brockunier & Co. Glass By: Neila & Tom Bredehoff |
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| Imperial Glass Encyclopedia By: James Measell Volume I A-Cane
Volume II Cape Cod-L
Volume III M-Z |
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| Imperial’s Vintage Milk Glass By: Myrna & Bob Garrison |
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| Kemple Glass 1945-1970 By: John R. Burkholder & D. Thomas O’Conner |
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| L.G. Wright Glass By: The West Virginia Museum of American Glass, Ltd. |
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| Milk Glass By: Belknap |
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| Milk Glass Addenda By: Edwin G. Warman |
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| Milk Glass – Imperial Glass Corporation By: Myrna and Bob Garrison |
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| Miniature Lamps By: Frank R. and Ruth E. Smith |
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| Opaque Glass By: S.T. Millard |
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| Rare & Unlisted Toothpick Holders By: William Heacock |
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| Shoes of Glass By: Libby Yalom |
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| Shoes of Glass, 2 By: Libby Yalom |
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| Tarentum Pattern Glass By: Robert Irwin Lucas |
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| The Big Book of Fenton Milk Glass 1940-1985 by John Walk |
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| The Collector’s Encyclopedia of Pattern Glass by Mollie Helen McCain |
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| The Compleat American Glass Candy Containers Handbook By: George Eikelberner and Serge Agadjanian |
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| The Complete Line of The Akro Agate Co. By: Roger and Claudia Hardy |
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| The Glass Candlestick Book By: Tom Felt and Elaine & Rich Stoer Volume I – Akro Agate to Fenton
Volume II – Fostoria to Jefferson Volume III – Kanawha to Wright |
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| The L. G. Wright Glass Company By: James Measell and W. C. “Red” Roetties |
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| Victorian Glass By: Ruth Webb Lee |
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| Victorian Glass Novelties By: Jo & Bob Sanford |
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| Welcome Home, Westmoreland By: Ruth Ann Grizel |
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| Westmoreland Glass By: Lorraine KovarWestmoreland Glass 1950-1984 Westmoreland Glass Vol. 2 1950-1984 Westmoreland Glass – Vol. 3 1888-1940 |
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| Westmoreland Glass – The popular years 1940-1985 By: Lorraine Kovar |
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| Westmoreland Glass By: Charles West Wilson |
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| Glass Collectors Digest (This Bi-monthly Magazine is no longer being published, but old copies can be a valuable resource.) |
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