1932 Children's Toys of Yesterday

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

First edition. Illustrated with twelve colour plates and hundreds of black-and-white images. Collated complete. A charming historical work on toys for children, with chapters on primitive toys, dolls, doll's houses, scenes and models, shops, soldiers and vehicles, animals, wooden toys, and mechanical toys from across the world. Edited by Charles Geoffrey Holme, an English art historian, author, and the son of Charles and Clare Holme who founded The Studio: an illustrated magazine of fine and applied art, a magazine dedicated to fine arts and decorative arts.