The Fan Book (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from The Fan Book

To the collector fans Offer a very wide field, and the subject is one round which much romance and history has centred.

Since summer first was leafy man has instinctively reached for a branch of a tree or a large leaf to dispel the heated air and ward Off flies, and early in the stages Of dawning civiliza tion, even among quite primitive peoples, has come the practice of elaborating and making more permanent these simple fans placed ready by Nature.

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