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Paperback. New.

Hardback. New.

London: Printed for the author, 1782. FIRST EDITION. 245 x 145 mm. (9 5/8 x 5 3/4"). 3 p.l. (lacking half title, as usual), 485 pp. Tasteful contemporary tree calf, covers with gilt pentaglyph-and-metope border, very expertly rebacked to style, smooth spine lavishly gilt in compartments separated by pentaglyph-and-metope roll and filled with repeating patten of floral and other small tools, red morocco label, marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece illustrating Shakespeare's "Seven Ages of Man" printed in sanguine, and 10 PLATES OF ELABORATE AND FREQUENTLY FANTASTICAL HAIRSTYLES, engraved on copper by Delegal. A Large Paper Copy. Colas 2802; Hiler, p. 816; Lipperheide 1681; ESTC T145753. ◆Occasional minor (mostly marginal) foxing (though three quires more noticeably affected), four plates with faint browning to margins, other trivial imperfections, but A VERY FRESH COPY WITH EXTREMELY WIDE MARGINS, in quite a handsome skillfully restored binding showing almost no signs of wear. Published for… Read More

London: for the Author No. 12, Old Broad-Street; and sold by all the booksellers in town and country, 1782. First edition. Engraved frontispiece (printed in sepia) of "Shakespeare's Seven Ages of Man" and 10 engraved plates. [vi], 435 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Full crimson morocco extra gilt, upper board tooled in gilt spiderweb about a large miniature by Miss C.B. Currie, gilt turn-ins, silk endsheets, t.e.g., front pastedown stamped in gilt "Bound by Riviere & Son from Designs by J. H. Stonehouse" and at back "Miniature C.B. Currie". Finely rebacked with spine laid down. In red cloth slipcase. First edition. Engraved frontispiece (printed in sepia) of "Shakespeare's Seven Ages of Man" and 10 engraved plates. [vi], 435 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. With a Miniature by Miss Currie. First edition of this remarkable study of women's hairdressing in the Georgian age. The work treats hair and its growth, the utensils used to dress it, methods for constructing head dresses using false hair and stiffeners, and for applying… Read More