Making a Spectacle: A Fashionable History of Glasses, Hardcover - Jessica Glasscock

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An illuminating, lively history of paganism in the West.Publisher: Reaktion BooksAuthor(s): Liz WilliamsNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021D...

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