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Antique French Doll Fashions & Accessories - Dresses & Ensembles / Scarce Book

$ 36.93

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    Description

    THE PARIS COLLECTION – French Doll Fashions and Accessories
    by Sylvia Mac Neil, Hobby House Press, MD, 1992.
    A collector’s item in itself, this comprehensive pictorial guide “is a concise and wonderfully thorough presentation of the clothing and accessories of French ‘fashion dolls,’ the elegant
    poupees
    of mid to late 19th century.
    THE PARIS COLLECTION
    is a detailed study of doll dresses and full ensembles including gloves, hats, purses, boots, jewelry, even ivory-handled parasols.  These particular dolls, chosen for their variety of body-types and faces as well as for their matchless beauty, are each shown in the specific apparel worn at the distinguished and fashionable places of Paris during the period, the Tuileries, the Bois de Boulogne, the Luxembourge Gardens and the Paris Opera House.  Sylvia Mac Neil is able to stunningly capture both the élan and the evocative styles that the dolls embody.”
    ”Superbly illustrated with 60 color photographs and line drawings, this book has significant value to all doll collectors, cultural historians and to those who wish to reproduce authentic fashions, as patterns are included of every dress featured in the collection….The book also also includes a rare selected listing, never before compiled, from commercial directories identifying the prominent doll shops and manufacturers in Paris between 1860 and 1880 which specialized in clothes and accessories for
    poupees.
    8.5” x 11” hardback with dust cover in very good condition.  191 pages.
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