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A lecture on the generation, increase and improvement of the human species. Interspersed with receipts for the preservation and exaltation of personal beauty and loveliness; and for prolonging human life, healthily and happily. With private Medical Advice to those Married Ladies and Gentlemen, who are not blessed with Children. Containing Such Precepts as will, if duly attended to, make Man and Wife Sweeter, Lovelier, and more Desireable in each other's Eyes; originally sold at the Temple of Hymen, (for One Guinea.)
Graham, James, 1745-1794.Date: [1780?]- Books
Classic beauty : the history of make-up / Gabriela Hernandez.
Hernandez, Gabriela, 1965-Date: [2011]- Books
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A lecture on the generation, increase, and improvement of the human species! Interspersed with precepts for the preservation and exaltation of personal beauty and loveliness; and For prolonging Human Life, Healthily and Happily, To the very longest possible Period of Human Existence! This curious, most eccentric, most important, and most cordially concentric Lecture, is begun with enumerating the safest and most efficacious Ways and Means of producing A Numerous, a Healthy, a Beautiful, and a Virtuous Offspring; And is closed with a glowing, brilliant, and supremely delightful Description of the Structure, and most irresistibly Genial Influences of the Celebrated Celestial Bed!!! The whole illustrated and embellished with A just and spirited Review of the Candour of News-Paper doers; of the present Professors and Administrations of Politics, Law, Physic, and Divinity; and with a Naked Exhibition of Asses, stripped of their Ermine, namely, of country just-asses, Mares, Alderwomen, and Whippers-In! By James Graham, M.D. President of the Council of Health!-Sole Proprietor, and principal Director of the Temple of Health! in Pall-Mall, near the King's-Palace.
Graham, James, 1745-1794.Date: [1783]- Books
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The guardian goddess of health: or, The whole art of preventing and curing diseases; and of enjoying peace and happiness of body and of mind to the longest possible period of human existence: with precepts for the preservation and exaltation of personal beauty and loveliness. To which is added, an account of the composition, preparation, and properties of the three great medicines prepared and dispensed at the Temple of Health, Adelphi, and at the Temple of Hymen, Pall-Mall, London. By James Graham, M.D. This book is of so much real importance to the health and happiness of each individual among the public, that tho' it contains more matter or reading than most two shilling pamphlets, it is ordered to be sold for only two pence; - a price very inadequate to the prime cost of the paper, printing, distribution, &c. But salus populi suprema lex est!
Graham, James, 1745-1794.Date: [1780?]- Books
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The economy of beauty; in a series of fables: addressed to the ladies. By Dr. Cosens, Minister of Teddington, Middlesex; and Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Earl of Denbigh.
Cosens, Dr. (John).Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- Books
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The economy of beauty; in a series of fables: addressed to the ladies. By Dr. Cosens, Minister of Teddington, Middlesex; and Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Earl of Denbigh.
Cosens, Dr. (John).Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- Books
Woman to woman / by K.M.
K.M.Date: 1934- Books
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The Art of Beauty, or, The best methods of improving and preserving the shape, carriage and complexion : together with, The theory of beauty.
Date: 1825- Books
Beauty and cosmetics, 1550-1950 / Sarah Jane Downing.
Downing, Sarah JaneDate: 2012- Books
Aids to beauty / Susanna Cocroft.
Cocroft, Susanna, 1862-1940.Date: 1907- Books
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The guardian goddess of health: or, the whole art of preventing and curing diseases; and of enjoying peace and happiness of body and of mind to the longest possible period ... with precepts for the preservation and exaltation of personal beauty ... To which is added, an account of the composition, preparation, and properties of the three great medicines prepared and dispensed at the Temple of Health, Adelphi, and at the Temple of Hymen, Pall-Mall, London / [James Graham].
Graham, James, 1745-1794Date: [1779?]- Books
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The guardian goddess of health, or, The whole art of preventing and curing diseases : and of enjoying peace and hapiness of body and of mind to the longest possible period of human existence : with precepts for the preservation and exaltation of personal beauty and loveliness : to which is added, an account of the composition, preparation, and properties of the three great medicines prepared and dispensed at the Temple of Health, Adelphi, and at the Temple of Hymen, Pall-Mall, London.
Graham, James, 1745-1794.Date: 1785- Books
Look at my ugly face : myths and musings on beauty and other perilous obsessions with women's appearance / Sara Halprin.
Halprin, Sara.Date: 1995- Books
IAL system : natural bio-interactive hyaluronic acid : medical-cosmetic treatment : long-acting bio-revitalisation programme : for the recovery and maintenance of a youthful skin / FIDIA.
Date: [2002?]- Pictures
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Two women at their toilet, a satyr looks on. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1937.
Date: 1937Reference: 34493i- Books
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My lady's dressing-room / Adapted from the French of the Baronne Staffe, with introduction and additions by Harriet Hubbard Ayer.
Staffe, baronne, -1911.Date: [1892]- Books
On beauty / edited by Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen.
Date: 2004- Books
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Hygiène générale : de la beauté humaine, specialement chez la femme, de son perfectionnement, de sa conservation et des moyens de prévenir ou de combattre sa dégradation. Alimentation, nutrition localisée, orthopédie, gymnastique, physiognomonie, etc. / par A. Debay.
Debay, A. (Auguste), 1802-1890.Date: [1846]- Books
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De la décoration humaine ; hygiène de la beauté / par Alphée Cazenave.
Cazenave, P.-L. Alphée (Pierre-Louis Alphée), 1795-1877.Date: 1867- Ephemera
C.W.S. White olive soap for beauty and health : obtainable at all Co-operative societies.
Co-operative Wholesale Society (Great Britain)Date: [between 1930 and 1939?]- Books
Sweeping evidence from far and near of the merits of the Evelyn Ellison System of Beauty Treatment.
Date: [between 1930 and 1950?]- Books
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The toilet : containing hints and advice on health, beauty, and dress, with innumerable recipes for the toilet table.
Date: 1897- Books
Modern beauty culture : a comlpete guide to beauty including diet, health exercises, baths, and all modern methods relating to the art of beauty culture with illustrations, diagrams, and recipes / by Maria Verni.
Verni, MariaDate: 1933- Pictures
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A young woman, winner of a beauty contest, wearing a large black hat with a trailing scarf round her throat.
Date: [approximately 1904]Reference: 528342iPart of: The Fallaize Collection.- Books
Decolonising my body : a radical exploration of rituals and beauty / Afua Hirsch.
Hirsch, AfuaDate: 2023