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• Book Title: An illustrated history of toys
• Author: Karl Fritzsch Manfred Bachmann
• ISBN: MW00146152
• Publisher: Abbey library
• Year Published: 1968
• Our Price: £44.00 GBP ($72.60 USD)
• Description: Abbey Library, London, 1968 reprint of the 1966 English edition: decorative board book: approximately the 9.5 x 11 inches tall: Green endpapers: 86 pages of text with inset black and white illustration and maps , plus 104 pages of black and white and full-colour plates-many full-page. Synopsis: A comprehensive and detailed history and description of German toymaking and toys, with text supported by 104 good quality plates. The volume covers the history of toymaking in Germany, with sections on Home-made toys; Toys from Guild's workshops; Nuremberg's importance in the toy trade; Oberammergau carvings; Berchtesgaden Ware; Toys from the Groden Valley; Sonneberg and the Meiningen Upland's; The Toy Country of the Erzgebirge; Toys in illustration ; Colour, sound and movement; The child's constructed world ; Workaday life, transport and the use of implements; Dolls, dolls houses and toyshops; Puppetry; Seasonal festive toys. The illustrations include rattle , churning, and nursing dolls, carved wooden toys ( including figures, animals, birds, Noah's Arks, wedding scenes, mechanical implements, soldiers, airships) mechanical toys, crankshaft operated manikins, tinkle boxes, pull toys, bellows toys, wax toys, dough toys, nodding toys, tin toys, corn straw toys, dolls houses and nurseries, dolls house fittings and china, Punch and Judy shows, home theatres and marionettes, puppets, Christmas pyramids, pastel burners, Christmas cribs, etc etc etc . Condition: corners bumped: hardcover slightly marked: upper corner front free endpaper missing: contents very clean: overall good and collectable
• Condition: Collectable- Good
• Dustcover: No
• Binding: Hardback
• Type: Used Books

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