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A suggested reading list for fan books is provided here.

Many of the books are out of print but can be obtained for reasonable prices on the second hand market such as Amazon or Abe Books. Or from booksellers at the FCI AGM. Browse these covers to get an idea what is in store!

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Jane Roberts, Prudence Sutcliffe, Susan Mayor: Unfolding Pictures - Fans In the Royal Collection. Exhibition 2005

Eventails Histoire et Gout: Musée de Arts Decoratives de Bordeaux, Catalogue 2004

Mayor, Susan. Collecting Fans. Bracken Books. 198002_0340

Armstrong, Nancy. Fans. Souvenir Press. 1984_0341

Eventails, Collection du Musee d’art et d’histoire de Geneve. By Maryse Volet and Annette Beentjes. Editions Slatkine. 1987.

Linda Bernati de Dominicis, Sulle Alle del Temp0 (On The Wings Of Time) 17th-19th C fans 1999

Mackay, James. Fans – Ornaments of Language and Fashion. Parkgate Books. 2000344

Magdelene Ducamp: La Folie des Eventails, 2001

Claudio Salsi: Paper Fans. Milan (English and Italian) 1988

Mayor, Susan. The Letts Guide to Collecting Fans. Charles Letts. 1991.0347

From Court to Confectionary. Privately published. 1994. By Peter Greenhalgh and Paul van Saanen.

L’Eventail Miroir de la Belle Epoque, Paris Musée Palais Galleria catalogue 1985

Armstrong, Nancy. A Collector’s History of Fans. Studio Vista. 1974.350

Unfolding Beauty – the Art of the Fan. Anna Gray Bennett. The collection of Esther Oldham and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. 1988.

Payen-Appenzeller, Pascal. Fancy Fans. Parangon. 2000._0352

Cynthia Fendel, Novelty Hand Fans 2006

Christl Kammerl, Der Fächer, Shloss Bruchsall Exhibition 1990

Pankha: exhibition of Indian fans at Fan Museum, Greenwich

Maros Donka: Charming Trifles, Fans from the Budapest Museum of Decorative Arts; catalogue 2002

Abanicos: The collection of the Municipal Museum of Madrid (In Spanish) 1995

European Fans – from Objet d’Art to Patented Invention. By Maryse Volet. 1994102_0359

Fans from the Fitzwilliam. By Nancy Armstrong. Cambridge. 1985.102_0360

Alexander, Helene. Fans. Shire Publications. 2002102_0361

Fendel, Cynthia. Celluloid Hand Fans. Hand Fan Productions. 2001

Fans: Museum of London Fan Collection 1985

Stella Beddoes: Art Deco Fans Brighton Art Gallery and Museum

The Fan Directory of Great Britain

Melville, Beryl. The Fan and Lace. Lochlea Publications. 1991.0366

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