The Ladies' Guide to Perfect Beauty. Being a Complete Analysis and Classification of the Elements, Nature, Standard, Causes, Anatomy, Species, Defects, and Effects of Beauty in Women

WALKER, Alexander

Published by J.B. Lippincott & Co, Philadelphia, 1864

About this Item

Octavo, brown cloth, gilt spine decoration and lettering, 390 pp. American edition of a beauty guide first published in London in 1836. This edition with a "Preliminary Essay by the American Editor." The text lays out ideal standards of beauty for all aspects of a woman's physiognomy. A nice copy with foxing to pages, old paper residue to rear pastedown, owner inscriptions to front endpapers, sunning to spine.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Ladies' Guide to Perfect Beauty. Being a Complete Analysis and Classification of the Elements, Nature, Standard, Causes, Anatomy, Species, Defects, and Effects of Beauty in Women
• Publisher: J.B. Lippincott & Co, Philadelphia
• Publication Date: 1864
• Binding: Hardcover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Women