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Percival Marson

A glass chemist rather than a novelist, this early 20th-century writer explained how glass was made in clear, practical terms. His small industrial handbook is still remembered by collectors and historians for the insight it gives into glass manufacture and iridescent finishes.

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Glass and Glass Manufacture

Glass and Glass Manufacture

by Percival Marson

About the author

Percival Marson is best known as the author of Glass and Glass Manufacture, a practical guide issued in Pitman’s Common Commodities and Industries series. The book presents glassmaking as both a craft and an industry, helping general readers understand materials, processes, and production.

Reliable sources about his personal life are limited, but specialist glass-history references identify him as a chemist associated with Sowerby and credit him with work on iridescent glass in the early 20th century. That background helps explain the confident, technical tone of his writing and why his book has remained of interest beyond its original period.

Today, Marson is remembered less as a literary figure and more as a knowledgeable industrial author whose writing preserves a snapshot of glass manufacture in his era.