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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, and expression of each individual, and rendering cosmetic impositions unnecessary / by Mrs. A. Walker ; all that regards regimen and health being furnished by medical friends, and revised by Sir Anthony Carlisle, F.R.S ; illustrated by coloured drawings of heads and figures ; revised and amended by an American editor.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection HQ1219 .W32 1840
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Walker, A., Mrs.
Contributor:
Carlisle, Anthony, Sir, 1768-1840.
Bowen, John T., approximately 1801-1856?, lithographer.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Beauty, Personal.
Women--Health and hygiene.
Women.
Clothing and dress.
Penn Provenance:
Burr, Charles W. (Charles Walts), 1861- (donor)
Physical Description:
400 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : 12 color illustrations ; 20 cm
Place of Publication:
New-York : Scofield and Voorhies, J. & H.G. Langley, [1840]
Notes:
Plates in pairs, one cut out to fit a corresponding part of the other.
"Lith. of J.T. Bowen, 94, Walnut St. Pa."
OCLC:
250090698

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