The toilet of Flora; or, a collection of the most simple and approved methods of preparing baths, essences, pomatums, powders, perfumes, and sweet-scented waters. With receipts for cosmetics of every kind ... for the use of ladies / [Anon].

Date:
1784
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About this work

Publication/Creation

London : printed for J. Murray ... and W. Nicoll ..., 1784.

Physical description

22 unnumbered pages, 252 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations (engraved frontispiece) ; (12mo)

Contributors

Edition

A new edition /

Notes

By Pierre Joseph Buc'hoz
First published in English in 1775

Contents

Partial contents: Waters -- Essences -- Flowers -- Gloves -- Breath -- Oils -- Virgin's milk -- Lotions -- Nails -- Fleas -- Wrinkles -- Wash-balls -- Eyebrows -- Warts -- Vinegars -- Eyes

References note

BMC (compact) v.4, p. 490
ESTC T27163

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    EPB/B/15982/1

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