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Author Culff, Robert

Title The world of toys / Robert Culff
Published Feltham, England : Hamlyn, [1969]
©1969

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 W'BOOL  745.592 Cul/Wot  AVAILABLE
Description 140 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Contents Contents. Author's introduction -- How toys began -- Early toys in Europe -- Toys in the eighteenth century -- The Lowther Arcade -- A Golden Age of playthings: Nineteenth century toys Part 1 -- A letter written by Lewis Carroll to Miss Beatrice Hatch in 1873 -- Mirror of the age: Nineteenth century toys Part 2 -- The Noah's ark -- Toys for teaching -- American toys -- Daisy's kitchen -- The modern scene
Summary Toys are a mirror of their times and ownership. This is a history of the first toys to the late 1960's
Notes Ill. on lining papers
Subject Toys -- History.
LC no. 76497294
ISBN 0600038726