Vintage Lighting: A Collector's Guide

This is an attractive book – coloured illustrations, clear page layouts with plenty of white space, good‐sized typeface, nicely bound, and with an interesting and informative text. I was a little unsure of its value as a reference book since it is aimed at the general reader and collector rather than seekers of facts and information, and the lack of an index is a serious omission. Yet as a contribution to the subject of lighting, its history, its lamps and their history, of lighting fuels and lighting manufacture, the book adds value to the library shelves. It also has a...