Antique sealed bottles 1640-1900: and the families who owned them

I have in the past, on rare occasions, been encouraged to buy a particular wine as much for the bottle (an unusual colour of glass, shape of the bottle or even design of the label) as for its contents. But I have never gone as far as any kind of personalised bottle (assuming that is still possible). But in former times, the marking (by seals) of wine bottles was a common occurrence, as the extraordinary range of examples this comprehensive reference book reveals. The seals of ownership are frequently of families or individuals or of various corporate bodies: trade guilds,...