1st edition (no additional printings noted). 8vo, blue boards, 149 pages, b/w photographs throughout, bibliography, index. Condition: NEAR FINE book / NEAR FINE jacket: small stain to top page edge, otherwise looks unread. The author discusses the history and development of visiting cards and their cases with more than 300 illustrations of the various cases and the materials of which they were made (silver, mother-of-pearl, ivory, lacquer, papier mache, Tunbridge wear, etc) and the decoration with which they were embellished, reflecting the social history of the Regency and Victorian periods (from the jacket). Georgette Heyer would have made great use of this book?.

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Title

Visiting Cards and Cases

Publisher

Baros Books, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, UK

Publication Date

1989

Language

English

ISBN 10

0948382031

ISBN 13

9780948382031

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Near Fine

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Binding tight. No marks. Dust jacket is Very Good.

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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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