1st edition [NAP], quarto, pale blue cloth, 96 pages, color illustrations throughout, bibliography. VERY GOOD book / VERY GOOD- jacket: book has light sunning to the top and bottom edges of boards, a small faint stain to spine tail, internally clean and tight; jacket has a 2" closed tear at front fold, price-clipped. "Traces the history of the fan, concentrating on the peak periods of fan-making- the 17th- early 20th centuries. Painted, printed, European, Oriental, ethnic, novelty and feather fans are all included. Over 200 fans are photographed, illustrating the diversity and detail of these most feminine and artistic of accessories.".

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Bibliographic Details

Title

A Collector's Guide to Fans

Publisher

Wellfleet Press, Secaucus, NJ

Publication Date

1990

Language

English

ISBN 10

1555215467

ISBN 13

9781555215460

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First Edition

Condition

Dust Jacket Condition

VG-

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Costume / Fashion

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Offers historical as well as practical information on painted and printed fans from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries, as well as Oriental, ethnographic, novelty, and feather fans

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Bygone Books is a small closed shop of fine used and collectible books and paper ephemera; with specialties in 18th & 19th century literature, Literary history & criticism; Jane Austen; Children's Literature; Great Britain; Domestic Arts [Cookery, Gardening, Etiquette, Manners & Mores, etc]; and Postcards and Sheet Music.

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