Home Antique Buttons Their History and How to Collect Them [Published earlier in the UK as ' Buttons for the Collector '] by Peacock, Primrose - 1973

Antique Buttons Their History and How to Collect Them [Published earlier in the UK as ' Buttons for the Collector '] by Peacock, Primrose - 1973

Name: Antique buttons; their history and how to collect them
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Author: Peacock, Primrose
ISBN: 9780877492351

by Peacock, Primrose

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Antique Buttons Their History and How to Collect Them [Published earlier in the UK as ' Buttons for the Collector ']

by Peacock, Primrose

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New York: Drake Publishers, 1973 Hardback, 194mm x 253mm tall (7.75" x 10" approx.). 128pp, with 6 colour, and 53 b/w plates + illustrations in the text, in total depicting many hundreds of buttons, and including a useful bibliography. The Author describes virtually every type of button manufactured in the 140-year period [1800-1940) covered by this erudite study. Very light sunning of top edges of boards, otherwise very good, in the original light-blue cloth-covered boards/gilt spine title, and price-clipped and slightly chipped but otherwise sound, colour-illustrated dust-wrapper. First Edition, Second Printing. Cloth. Good/Good. 4to.

Bookseller Independent bookstores (GB)
Format/Binding Hardcover
Book Condition Used - Good
Jacket Condition Good
Edition First Edition, Second Printing
Binding Hardcover
ISBN 10 0877492352
ISBN 13 9780877492351
Publisher Drake Publishers
Place of Publication New York
Date Published 1973
Keywords Westerbeek Button Buttons Fastener Fasteners Fastenings Dress Clothes Clothing Accessories Bone Ivory Glass Fabric Design Collecting Antique Antiques Agate Mother-of-Pearl Lithograph Lithography Celluloid Enamel Enamels Steel Tortoise Tortoiseshell Pearl
Size 4to