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Fashions in eyeglasses : [from the fourteenth century to the present day] / Richard Corson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Corson, Richard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Eyeglasses--History.
- Eyeglasses.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 336 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Edition:
- Third revised and updated edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Peter Owen ; Chicago, Ill. : Distributed by Independent Publishers Group, 2011.
- Contents:
- The beginnings
- The middle ages
- The sixteenth century
- The seventh 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 nineteenth century
- Spyglasses
- The lorgnette
- The monocle
- Spectacles
- Pince-nez
- Contact lenses
- The twentieth century
- The twenties
- The thirties
- The forties
- The fifties
- The sixties
- The 1970s into the new millennium.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780720613469
- 0720613469
- OCLC:
- 775364294
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