The Book of Perfumes. With above 250 illustrations by Bourdelin, Thomas, etc.
The Book of Perfumes. With above 250 illustrations by Bourdelin, Thomas, etc.

The Book of Perfumes. With above 250 illustrations by Bourdelin, Thomas, etc.

  • Rimmel, Eugene
  • London: Chapman and Hall 1865

£500

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Description

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, 8vo, pp. xx, 264, [2, ads] + engraved frontispiece, 11 engraved plates, and one chromolithograph plate. Black and white illustrations within pagination. Original textured green cloth by Bone & Son, front board and spine elaborately blocked in gilt, rear board blocked in blind, all edges gilt. A little foxing, endpapers toned. Spine ends bumped, extremities a touch rubbed. Later bookplate of Mark Sprot, Riddell.

Notes

A sharp copy of this substantial history of perfumes and beauty practices, the major publication of Eugene Rimmel (c.1820-1887), a French-English perfumer and cosmetics businessman and inventor of the first mass-produced non-toxic mascara. Scarce in this condition.

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