The Vivien Greene Dolls' House Collection

by Vivien Greene and Margaret Towner

Book Overview

For the last 40 years, Vivien Greene has been the undisputed authority on English dolls' houses of the 18th and 19th centuries. This fully illustrated view of more than 40 of her houses and their... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879516321
• ISBN13: 9780879516321
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.8" x 11.1"

Customer Reviews

A real inspriation

That's what this book is for any dollhouse collector. If it is true that dollhouses are addictive and you can't have just one, Vivian Greene lives up to that ideal. Her rescue of antique dollhouses from the dustbins of Britain sparked a dollhouse revival that spread to the US and around the world. Yet the book is not full of the grandious rooms of Queen Mary's Dollhouse or Colleen Moore's. It is full of objects and ideas that are well within the reach of the serious and even not so serious collector, as well as period design authentic to each era. Mrs. Greene's dollhouse collection begins with a 17th century dollhouse and continues up to when dollhouses began to be commercially produced. Each is a one of a kind historical artifact. This is my favorite dollhouse book bar none.