Description and condition:

Red boards hardback, dustcover, 8vo, 226pp, index, colour frontis, b/w illustrations.

Good copy with foxing to outer edges and prelims, else good clean pages. In worn dustcover with rubbing and loss to spine, now protected.

Contents:

The doll's ancestors; effigy and image magic; effigies in Westminster Abbey; portrait dolls; Queen Victoria's dolls; the wooden doll; the wax doll; the china doll; fashion dolls; many inventions; pedlars and fortune-tellers; the nativity crib; puppets and marionettes; punch.