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Large format hardcover, quarto size volume bound in black cloth lettered in silver, in publisher’s black pictorial dust-jacket. 200 pages. Appendix, Notes and Index. Illustrated with color photographs of over 50 lamps, windows, mosaics, ceramics and enamels, as well as numerous black and white images. First edition. Published on the occasion of the eponymously named exhibition held by the New-York Historical Society February 23-May 28, 2007. This title presents a new perspective on the history of Tiffany Studios’ by focusing on the prodigious contributions of Clara Driscoll, manager of the Women’s Glass Cutting Department, as well as providing brief biographies of 63 distaff employees from designers and selectors to actual glass-cutters. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked copy, pristine and like new. As new in an as new dust-jacket.