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Cosmetics.- Jeamson (Thomas) Artificiall Embellishments. Or Arts Best Directions How to Preserve Beauty or Procure it, first edition, marginal worming, paper flaw in L3 with loss of one letter, corner of L8 torn away but not quite affecting text block, new endpapers, contemporary calf, rebacked, head of spine worn, rubbed, [Wing J503; Madan III, 2705], 8vo, Oxford, Printed by William Hall, 1665.

⁂ ''A manual of cosmetics, interspersed with highfalutin' talk...There is a modicum of scientific practical medicine, and much humbug, such as a recipe to get plump (p.67), namely to take twelve or thirteen 'lizards or neuts', boil them &c., feed a hen with them, then 'kil her and eat her'. All this was written for ladies by a fellow of Wadham, who tried in vain to conceal the authorship, and was much laughed at...'' (Madan).

Provenance: Archibald Spark (ink inscription and Latin verse, dated 1666 on front free endpaper); John Lloyd (ink inscription dated 1706 on another front free endpaper); Catherine Lloyd (ink inscription on rear free endpaper).

Lot 184

Cosmetics.- Jeamson (Thomas) Artificiall Embellishments. Or Arts Best Directions How to Preserve Beauty or Procure it, first edition, Oxford, Printed by William Hall, 1665.  

Hammer Price: £2,200

Description

Cosmetics.- Jeamson (Thomas) Artificiall Embellishments. Or Arts Best Directions How to Preserve Beauty or Procure it, first edition, marginal worming, paper flaw in L3 with loss of one letter, corner of L8 torn away but not quite affecting text block, new endpapers, contemporary calf, rebacked, head of spine worn, rubbed, [Wing J503; Madan III, 2705], 8vo, Oxford, Printed by William Hall, 1665.

⁂ ''A manual of cosmetics, interspersed with highfalutin' talk...There is a modicum of scientific practical medicine, and much humbug, such as a recipe to get plump (p.67), namely to take twelve or thirteen 'lizards or neuts', boil them &c., feed a hen with them, then 'kil her and eat her'. All this was written for ladies by a fellow of Wadham, who tried in vain to conceal the authorship, and was much laughed at...'' (Madan).

Provenance: Archibald Spark (ink inscription and Latin verse, dated 1666 on front free endpaper); John Lloyd (ink inscription dated 1706 on another front free endpaper); Catherine Lloyd (ink inscription on rear free endpaper).

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