Antique Commercial Perfume Bottles 850 Pictures / Massive Illustrated Book

Description

COMMERICAL PERFUME BOTTLES
by Jacquelyne Y. Jones-North, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., PA, 1987.
Lavishly illustrated with 500 color and 350 black-and-white photographs, this book  is comprehensive guide to collecting past and present bottles used by perfumers and includes prices.  “Beautiful color pictures of flacons made by R. Lalique, Baccarat, J. Viard, Brosse, A. Jollivet, Cristal Nancy, Wheaton, C.K. Benda, and Lucien Guillard.  Figural, novelty dimestore, and bottles with the original packaging are shown.  Lavishly illustrated with catalog and ad pictures.  Histories of many famous perfume houses and bottle makers are included.  A directory of hundreds of American and European perfumers from 1870 to the present, with the names of thousands of scents makes dating a bottle easier for the collector.”
Oversize / heavy 9.25” x 12.4” hardback with dust cover in very good condition. 267 pages.
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