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Eyes and the Changing World
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leaflet
Young, Frederick W.
Europe: United Kingdom, England, West Sussex, Worthing
c.1929
paper
overall: 188 x 125 mm

Practice leaflet for an ophthalmic optician. 8 pages printed in dark brown on cream-coloured paper, stapled. Includes, on the front cover, a reproduction of the print 'The Reader' in the BOA Museum and, on the inside, a brief history of eyewear as used by famous people (Pepys, Carlyle, Roosevelt, Swift, Balzac, Goethe) and quotations on the subject.


2000.304/19

Gift of Joan Young, 2000



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