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Beauty's In The Eye
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leaflet
Young, Frederick W.
Europe: United Kingdom, England, West Sussex, Worthing
1920s
paper
overall: 181 x 125 mm

Practice leaflet for an ophthalmic optician. 14 pages printed in black and white, with grey soft paper covers, stapled. Includes, on the front cover, a decorative title and, on the inside, a colour drawing of a woman wearing rimless pince-nez and brief articles illustrated with photographs of people about Short Sight, Long Sight ('Worry'), Old Sight ('Natural Failure'), Astigmatism (including unnatural reading positions) and advertisements for Rimless Eyeglasses and Spectacles, Tortoiseshell Spectacles and Eyeglasses (including the 'Windsor' frame for sports), Toric Curvature Lenses and Crooke's Glass Lenses.


2000.304/17

Gift of Joan Young, 2000



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