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Fashions in Eyeglasses
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Fashions In Eyeglasses is the most comprehensive history of eyewear ever to be published in English.
With over 100 period prints and 500 drawings illustrating the manufacture and development of eyewear, Fashions In Eyeglasses is the definitive resource for anyone who works in fashion or theatre, as well as being a fascinating journey through time for the historian and general reader alike. Beginning with the Italian cardinal who riveted two magnifying lenses together, Corson moves through time to include spyglasses, opera glasses, monocles, Morrissey's N.H.S. specs, Sven's Armanis, and much, much more …
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Fashions In Eyeglasses is the most comprehensive history of eyewear ever to be published in English.
With over 100 period prints and 500 drawings illustrating the manufacture and development of eyewear, Fashions In Eyeglasses is the definitive resource for anyone who works in fashion or theatre, as well as being a fascinating journey through time for the historian and general reader alike.
Beginning with the Italian cardinal who riveted two magnifying lenses together, Corson moves through time to include spyglasses, opera glasses, monocles, Morrissey's N.
H.
S.
specs, Sven's Armanis, and much, much more ….
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