The Collector's History of Dolls Constance Eileen King HB large Size Bonanza Edition 1981 Edition 608 pages great overall used & read condition, although DW cover slight rubbed, marked, bumped shelf wear, secondhand book, this is a carefully selected pre-loved book, note light spotting marks front & rear cover pages, internals great & tidy. Descriptive, Awesome, insightful, extremely informative covering wide range & variety aspects & issues dolls & doll collecting, from early initial history, development & progress, traced in relation to social context of the lives of the child owners. Though defined as a representation of human form to be played with a s a to by a child, the doll is examined in its widest sense, includes piano babies, bathing beauties, boudoir dolls, fashion & crèche figures, all of which now fall within the ever widening ambit of the collector. Many dolls s discussed are of fine quality, the cheap substitutes made v by very poor children are also included wherever possible, as only too often history is related only to the lives of the most wealthy. covers substances, rubber, celluloid, plastic, design changes, adaptions to new mediums, Some finest dolls produced 19th century, most now antique collectors, vast range of countries dolls included here not just English... & lots more, well illustrated with 430 B&W & over 30 full colour illustrations

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