Ancient dolls: history, fashion, and puppetry

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SÉZAN, CLAUDE. Les Poupées anciennes. Édition de la Baconnière, Neuchâtel. N.d. 'Collection des collectionneurs'. Illustrated work with 40 plates and colored frontispiece. Softcover, octavo, under reinforced cover, 196 pp. Comprehensive study covering: ancient dolls from Egypt, the Orient, Greece, and Rome; dolls as toys and fashion ambassadors from the Middle Ages through the 19th century; regional and exotic dolls from the Trocadéro Museum (England, Holland, Switzerland, Russia, India, Indochina, China, Japan, America, Africa, Oceania); puppet theater history among ancients and moderns, including Java, Japan, China, India, Persia, Turkey, Russia, Poland, Holland, Germany, Belgium, England, Spain, Portugal, and Italy; decorative arts. Includes bibliography.