Female beauty :
as preserved and improved by regimen, cleanliness and dress : and especially by the adaptation, colour and arrangement of dress, as variously influencing the forms, complexion, & expression of each individual, and rendering cosmetic impositions uunecessary /
by Mrs. A. Walker ; all that regards regimen and health being furnished by medical friends, and revised by Sir Anthony Carlisle, vice president of the College of Surgeons, &c. &c. &c. ; illustrated by coloured drawings of heads by J.W. Wright and of figures by E.T. Parris.

Description

Main Author

Walker, A., Mrs.

Related Names

Hurst, Thomas, publisher.
Gauci, M., lithographer.
Parris, E. T. (Edmund Thomas), 1793-1873, illustrator.
Wright, John William, 1802-1848, illustrator.
Carlisle, Anthony, Sir, 1768-1840.
R. Martin & Co.
J. and C. Adlard (Firm)

Language(s)

English

Published

London : Thomas Hurst, 65, St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1837

Subjects

Women > Women / Health and hygiene.
Clothing and dress.
Beauty, Personal.
Clothing and dress > Clothing and dress / 19th century.
Women > Women / Health and hygiene.
Beauty, Personal.

Note

Library's copy lacking last 4 (i.e., 2 double) plates.
Binding: Full dark green morocco, with decorative blind-stamping on front and rear; title in gilt on spine.
With extra color plate, mounted, and captioned "Mrs. Nicholas Geary's corsets", bound in as frontispiece.
Plates "On stone by M. Gauci" from drawings by J.W. Wright or E.T. Paris and printed by R. Martin & Co., 26 Long Acre.
Publisher's advertisements on p. [xxv]-xxxvi.
Ten pairs of plates, one cut out to fit a corresponding part of the other.

Physical Description

xxxvi, 432 pages, [21] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 20 cm

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