MARY BENBOW, EDITH DUNLOP and JOYCE LUCKIN's DOLLS TRADITIONAL AND TOPICAL BOOK REVIEW

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction
1. Doll with Ping-pong Ball Head (Doll 1)
2. Clothes-peg Doll (Doll 2)
3. Japanese Lady
4. Hardanger Bride
5. Queen of Hearts
6. Tee-shape Doll (Doll 3)
7. Eskimo Mother and Baby and Father
8. Corrugated-paper Doll (Doll 4)
9. Puritan Woman of the Seventeenth Century
10. Laughing Cavalier, 1645
11. Pikeman, 1660
12. Billingsgate Fishwife (Early Nineteenth Century)
13. Felt and Wire Doll (Doll 5)
14. Miss 1470
15. Mr 1470
16. Miss 1970
17. Mr 1970
18. Ballerina from "Petrouchka"
19. The Miller's Wife from "The Three-cornered Hat"
20. Cossack Dancer from "La Boutique Fantasque"
21. Flower-seller
22. Fortune-teller
23. Fisherman
24. Pedlar Doll
25. Colonol in the Union Army, 1861
26. Colonel in the Confederate Army, 1861
27. The Investiture of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, July 1st, 1969
28. Man on the Moon
29. Madame de Pompadour

Title: Dolls Traditional and Topical and How to Make Them
Author: Mary Benbow, Edith Dunlop, Joyce Luckin
Publication Date: HC:1970
Publisher: Plays, Inc., Boston, MA
Page Count: 94
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 10 1/4" x 7 1/4"
ISBN: 0823800903

PATTERN RATING: Patterns are full-size for 10-inch felt and wire frame dolls. They use the old a-b-c method of marking and do not include seam allowances or grainline guides. There is a wide variety, and despite the size, pretty good detail. The doll itself is generic - you alter the details to suit the character.

INSTRUCTION RATING: Instructions are very bare-bones and broken down into body/costume parts.

SUMMARY- The costuming for the dolls has very good detail. This is one of the better of the miniature doll books I've picked up of late. I like that they make their dolls poseable - they aren't just standing there rigid, despite the three they showed on the cover. These designers are quite clever with the details