Details

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Paper dolls [Browse]
• Puzzles and games [Browse]

Notes

• Title from box lid.
• The illustration on the box lid, which is signed C. Bommier, shows a girl holding the game box open on her lap, her mother looking at one of the pattern sheets, another daughter looking on, and an older brother balancing a smartly dressed doll on his finger. In lower right hand corner: Paris: Lith. H. Jannin.
• Includes a lithographed sheet 33 x 22 cm. "La recreation des demoiselles etude sur le decoupage par H. Rousseau patrons des robes." "Imp. Houiste rue de la Harpe 123" in lower right hand corner. The patterns have been retraced in pencil and pricked with a needle. Stored in the box lid, secured by two fabric tapes.
• The lower portion of the box is divided into five containers. One holds the six numbered girl paper dolls in underclothes, another with a second set of 6 numbered girl paper dolls in homemade dresses, a third with homemade hats, a fourth with tinselled ribbon, and the large central one with paper samples and more homemade costumes.
• Costume game.

Binding note

Pub. hinged box covered with dark blue, aqua and gilt patterned paper, trimmed with embossed ribbon on the lid; archival box

OCLC

1347202264

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