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 Unnecessary.

Mrs. A. Walker; revised by Sir Anthony Carlisle

Published by Thomas Hurst, London, 1837

About this Item

A scarce copy of Mrs. Walker's lessons on female beauty. Revised by Sir Anthony Carlisle, Vice President of the College of Surgeons. With colour illustrations by J. W. Wright and E. T. Parris. The plates are arranged in such a way that a head-shaped portion of a number of them has been cut out, to reveal the plate on the following page, in order to highlight a 'flaw' in the female figure portrayed. Contains eleven such plates, but two are missing their secondary layer. In a morocco binding with a blind stamped design to the boards, and a gilt fore-edge. Externally with some marks; with significant loss to the spine. The joints are weak. Internally, the binding is strained, and tender in places; with a number of pages at the front and at the rear detached, and others loosening. The pages are generally bright and clean, with scattered spotting; the plates are arrangement of the plates mean that some pages have intentional holes in them to allow illustrations to be seen on the next page, and some of these have closed tears around them. With discolouration to the endpapers. Fair. Seller Inventory # GEN1-E-29

Bibliographic Details

Title: Female Beauty, As Preserved and Improved by ...

Publisher: Thomas Hurst, London

Publication Date: 1837

Binding: Leather

Illustrator: J. W. Wright; E. T. Parris

Condition: Fair

Book Type: book