Fashions in eyeglasses
Subtitle: [from the fourteenth century to the present day]
By: Richard Corson
Edition: 3rd rev. and updated ed.
Publisher: Peter Owen; Distributed by Independent Publishers Group
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780720613469
Subjects: Eyeglasses; History
Notes: Includes index.

Subtitle from p. 1 of jacket.

First published in 1967.

"3rd impression with second supplement published 2011"--Tp. verso.
Table of contents: title: The beginnings; title: The middle ages; title: The sixteenth century; title: The seventh century; title: The perspective glass; title: Spectacle frames; title: The guilds; title: The prospect glass; title: The oculists; title: The eighteenth century; title: The early years; title: Temple spectacles; title: The quizzing glass; title: Scissors-glasses; title: The prospect glass; title: The nineteenth century; title: Spyglasses; title: The lorgnette; title: The monocle; title: Spectacles; title: Pince-nez; title: Contact lenses; title: The twentieth century; title: The early years; title: The twenties; title: The thirties; title: The forties; title: The fifties; title: The sixties; title: The 1970s into the new millennium.