Introduction - Introduction to Cut and Engraved Glass

Composition - The Composition of Lead Glass Used in Cutting

Blanks - Blanks Provided by Manufacturers for the Cutting of Glass

Cutting - Types of Cutting Employed by Nineteenth Century Glass Cutters

Motifs - Cut-Glass Motifs Available to Designers of Cut-Glass Patterns

Rims - Rim Treatments Used on Nineteenth/Twentieth Century Products

Engraving - Types of Engraving Found on Collectible Glass of the Period

Pattern Names - Pattern Names Chosen by Manufacturers and Cutting Shops

Russian - The Russian and Persian Patterns; the Burgess Patterns

Patented - Glass Patents Granted by the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office

Colored - Colored Cut and Engraved Glass, Domestic and Imported

Foreign - Foreign Cut Glass on American Tables

Fakes - Fakes, Forgeries, and Reproductions That Bemuse Us

Catalogs - Four Cut-Glass Catalogs Produced by Three Companies Operating during the Early Brilliant Period

Repairs - To Repair or Not to Repair Damaged Glass? A Timely Question with No Single (or Simple) Answer

Bibliography/Further Reading (Available only offline as Appendix D)

The Ellsmere pattern by the Libbey Glass Company