Description
Artist Brenda Sneathen Mattox has painstakingly re-created a wealthy choice of nineteenth-century dolls for Nowadays’s youngsters (and the young at heart) to enjoy. Thirty full-page, in a position-to-color illustrations present these rare dolls in authentic period costumes. Included are captivating Jumeau dolls with long, curly tresses; a Bru lady doll with a fashionable hat and high-necked dress, ca. 1870; a French fashion bride of the 1870s; a French walking doll with a feathered hat, ca. 1880; an engaging, wide-eyed bisque “googly”; a Simon and Halbig and a Kestner doll, both with long hair; a François Gaultier-type doll in a stylish ensemble; and lots of more. Seven dolls are shown in full color on the covers.
These beautifully drawn portraits of impossible to resist playthings — all identified in brief captions — will delight not only coloring book fans, but doll collectors and antique enthusiasts as well.