Books about Stained Glass and Stained Glass Artists
 

The following is a selection of books about stained glass. Clicking on one of the covers or links will take you to Amazon.com where you can order it online and/or search for other titles. This list is by no means exhaustive, nor am I able to personally endorse or recommend particular titles, it is simply a few suggestions of some relevant books for the convenience of our visitors. Buying books or other items from Amazon via this link will help to support this site and it will not cost you any more than buying from Amazon direct or via any other link.

  A Thousand Years of Stained Glass. I have seen this coffee-table book by Catherine Brisac and it contains some beautiful images.
  June Osborne's book was my introduction to stained glass and I highly recommend it. I bought a copy in Cambridge on one of my trips back to the UK and I have used it several times to track down interesting windows on my various travels there. The general history and introduction is very well written and there are some good illustrations too but the real meat of the book is the listing of noteworthy windows by county.
  I have to confess that I know nothing about this book but there is much fine glass to be found in Pennsylvania and it is published by the University of Scranton.
  Midwest Book Review (on Amazon) describes this book as follows: - "Collaboratively compiled and edited by Jean M. Farnsworth, Carmen R. Croce, and Joseph F. Chorpenning, OSFS, Stained Glass In Catholic Philadelphia is a lavish, eye-catching, 505-page, coffee table artbook filled from cover to cover with superbly presented stained glass windows from Catholic churches throughout the great city of Philadelphia. Brief annotations of the individual stained glass artworks deliver insightful commentary about the history and essence of these tremendously beautiful and moving images. Stained Glass In Catholic Philadelphia is a unique and recommended contribution to American Art History collections."This is one which I would at very least like to see and may buy when funds permit. I suspect that my only regret might be that it is limited to works in Catholic churches.
  I feel sure that this 2 volume set is aimed primarily at University libraries and other serious academic institutions. I have not yet had the opportunity to look at a copy but I was quite taken aback to read in a review that most of the pictures are in black and white with descriptions of the colours of the glass. Personally I find this quite incredible in a book priced at almost $300 and published in 2002 though I am sure that there are good reasons why more colour illustrations were not possible.
  This work, also by Virginia Raguin, appears to offer much better value in terms of illustrative content.
  Please forgive the spelling-error, the link had to be copied and pasted from Amazon and they have the book listed with this unusual spelling of Burgundy.
  Another Burne-Jones biography
  I have read several very favourable reviews about this book which is said to be very well illustrated, including pictures of medieval glass in churches which have since been closed down.
  This book is not about stained glass. Alister McGrath's internationally-acclaimed Christian Theology: An Introduction is one of the most widely used textbooks in Christian theology. This latest edition incorporates one of my images - a Resurrection angel by Henry Holiday from Calvary Episcopal Church in Summit New Jersey.
  This bestselling volume, also by Alister McGrath, is also not about stained glass. It brings together 361 readings drawn from 233 different sources, and charting the 2,000 years of Christian history. The latest edition incorporates another StainedGlassPhotography image from Calvary Episcopal Church, this one of Mary from an Annunciation panel by Henry Holiday.