Pleasures & Treasures: Dolls

Description

From the dust jacket: "In this concise and attractive for m, Antonia Fraser has told the stroy of dolls of all ages and in many countries. . . .The book is international in its scope. Dutch dolls, Japanese dolls, American Pennywoods, Peg dolls, the European fashion dolls of the seventeenth century, German and Italian doll makers and Queen Victoria's own collection of dolls, all find their place in these pages. Particular attention is paid to the materials from which dolls have been made (wood, paper, wax, papier mache, china, paste, bisque, rubber, celluloid, cloth and plastic), the clothes in which they have been dressed, and the mechanical devices by which head and limbs have been attached to the body, culminating in the inspired automata of the last three centuries."