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Fans over the ages : a collector's guide / Bertha de Vere Green.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection NK4870 .D48 1979
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- De Vere Green, Bertha.
- Standardized Title:
- Collector's guide to fans over the ages
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fans--Collectors and collecting.
- Fans.
- Physical Description:
- 174 pages, [12] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 x 29 cm
- Edition:
- 1st American ed.
- Place of Publication:
- South Brunswick [N.J.] : A.S. Barnes, 1979, ©1975.
- Contents:
- The origin of the fan
- The fan in Asia
- Fans enter Europe
- The development of fans in Europe
- The folding fan in England
- The language of the fan
- Types of fan
- The manufacture of fans
- Cleaning and repairing fans
- Points for collectors
- Decorative art and the fan form
- An index of fan makers, designers and painters
- A catalogue of fan leaf subjects.
- Notes:
- Published in 1975 under title: A collector's guide to fans over the ages.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 164-165) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 0498020975
- 9780498020971
- OCLC:
- 6030167
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