Fashions in eyeglasses: [from the fourteenth century to the present day] / Richard Corson
by Corson, Richard
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London Chicago, Ill.: Peter Owen; Distributed by Independent Publishers Group, 2011. 3rd rev.ised and updated edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 336 p.: ill.; 26 cm. Includes index. Notes; First published in 1967. ""3rd impression with second supplement published 2011"" --Tp. verso. Contents; The beginnings -- The middle ages -- The sixteenth century -- The seventeenth century -- The perspective glass -- Spectacle frames -- The guilds -- The prospect glass -- The oculists -- The eighteenth century -- The early years -- Temple spectacles -- The quizzing glass -- Scissors-glasses -- The prospect glass -- The nineteenth century -- Spyglasses -- The lorgnette -- The monocle -- Spectacles -- Pince-nez -- Contact lenses -- The twentieth century -- The early years -- The twenties -- The thirties -- The forties -- The fifties -- The sixties -- The 1970s into the new millennium. Subject; Eyeglasses - History.
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- Title
- Fashions in eyeglasses: [from the fourteenth century to the present day] / Richard Corson
- Author
- Corson, Richard
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- Hardcover
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- 3rd rev.ised and updated edition
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- London Chicago, Ill.: Peter Owen; Distributed by Independent Publishers Group
- Date Published
- 2011
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