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An address to persons of fashion, relating to balls: with a few occasional hints concerning play-houses, card-tables, &c. In which is introduced the character of Lucinda, a lady of the very best fashion, and of most extraordinary Piety. By the author of Pietas Oxoniensis.
Hill, Richard, Sir, 1733-1808.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]- Books
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Genuine anecdotes and amorous adventures of Sir Richard Easy, and Lady Wagtail: containing the History of the Polite World for the last five years; also including the tetes a tetes, intrigues, and connections of the Beaux Garcons and Demireps upon the ton; with their characters, dispositions, and pursuits. By a man of fashion.
Man of fashion.Date: 1782- Pictures
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The figure of a woman divided in two parts: half skeleton, half lady of fashion, standing next to a obelisk inscribed with biblical quotations. Etching, 17--, attributed to V. Green.
Green, Valentine, 1739-1813.Reference: 26238i- Books
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An address to persons of fashion, containing some particulars relating to balls: and a few occasional hints concerning play-houses, card-tables, &c. In which is introduced the character of Lucinda, a lady of the very best fashion, and of most extraordinary piety. [Two lines in Latin from Horace]
Hill, Richard, Sir, 1733-1808.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
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An address to persons of fashion, containing some particulars relating to balls: And a few occasional hints concerning play-houses, card-tables, &c. In which is introduced the character of Lucinda, a lady of the very best fashion, and of most extraordinary piety. By a Gentleman of the University of Oxford.
Hill, Richard, Sir, 1733-1808.Date: M.DCC.LXI. [1761]- Books
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The dumb lady; or, No, no, not I; I'le answer : To the tune of, the doubtful virgin, or the new Borey, or Will you be a man of fashion.
Date: [between 1682-1690]- Pictures
A lady in fashionable dress, wearing an elaborate bonnet. Lithograph by H. Grévedon, 183-.
Grévedon, Henri, 1776-1860.Date: [between 1830 and 1839]Reference: 2491391i- Books
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Four genuine letters, which lately passed between a noble lord, and a young woman of fashion. To which is added, a letter from a lady to Miss ******. With a copious preface, setting that affair in a true light. By a friend of the Earl of ******.
Pembroke, Henry Herbert, Earl of, 1734-1794.Date: [1762?]- Books
International loving fashions / Lady of Paris (UK) Ltd.
Lady of Paris (UK) Ltd.Date: [approximately 1981]- Pictures
Fatima, the wife of the Kahya at Adrianopolis, rises to greet Lady Mary Wortley Montagu while her two daughters remain seated. Stipple engraving by J. Parker after T. Stothard.
Stothard, Thomas, 1755-1834.Date: Feb.y 11 1791Reference: 3006311i- Books
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The accomplish'd lady's delight, in preserving, physick, beautifying, cookery, and gardening. Containing, I. The art of preserving, and candying, fruits and flowers, and making all sorts of conserves, syrups, jellies, and pickles. II. The physical cabinet: or, excellent receipts in physick and chirurgery. Also some new receipts relating to the fair sex, whereby they may be richly furnish'd with all manner of beautifying waters, to add loveliness to the face and body. III. The compleat cook's guide: or directions for dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl and fish, after the newest fashion, now in use at the British court; with the making of sauces, pyes pasties, tarts, custards, &c. VI. [sic] The female angler, instructing ladies and others, in the various methods of taking all manner of fish, in the fish-pond or river. V. The lady's diversion in her garden or, the compleat flowerist, with the nature and use of all sorts of plants and flowers.
Date: [1720?]- Pictures
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A skeleton gentleman at a ball asks a skeleton lady to dance; representing the effect of arsenical dyes and pigments in clothing and accessories. Wood engraving, 1862.
Date: February 8, 1862Reference: 36772i- Pictures
Canton, Kwangtung province, China: a lady holding a parasol. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1869Reference: 19598i- Pictures
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Fatima, the wife of the Kahya at Adrianopolis, rises to greet Lady Mary Wortley Montagu while her two daughters remain seated. Stipple engraving after T. Stothard.
Stothard, Thomas, 1755-1834.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 27545i- Books
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The lady's assistant for regulating and supplying her table; containing one hundred and fifty select bills of fare, Properly disposed for Family Dinners Of Five Dishes, to Two Courses of Eleven and Fifteen; With upwards of Fifty Bills Of Fare For Suppers, From Five Dishes to Nineteen; And Several Deserts: including a considerable number of choice receipts Of Various Kinds, With full Directions for preparing them in the most approved Manner: now first published from the manuscript collection of a professed housekeeper; Who had upwards of Thirty Years Experience in Families of the First Fashion.
Mason, Charlotte.Date: M.DCC.LXXIII. [1773]- Pictures
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Fatima, the wife of the Kahya at Adrianopolis, rises to greet Lady Mary Wortley Montagu while her two daughters remain seated. Stipple engraving by J. Parker after T. Stothard.
Stothard, Thomas, 1755-1834.Date: 1 Sep.r 1798Reference: 27546i- Pictures
China: a Manchu lady with her daughter in-law, Beijing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1869Reference: 19640i- Books
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The fashionable magazine; or, Lady's and gentleman's repository of taste, elegance, and novelty.
Date: [1786]- Books
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The lady's assistant, for regulating and supplying her table, being a complete system of cookery, &c. Containing One hundred and Fifty select Bills of Fare, properly disposed for Family Dinners, of Five Dishes to Two Courses of Eleven and Fifteen; with Upwards of Fifty Bills of Fare for Suppers, from Five Dishes to Nineteen; and Several Deserts: Including Likewise, The fullest and choicest Receipts of various Kinds, with Full Directions for preparing them in the most approved Manner, from which a continual Change may be made, as wanted, in the several Bills of Fare: Published from the manuscript collection of Mrs. Charlotte Mason, A Professed Housekeeper, who had upwards of Thirty Years Experience in Families of the first Fashion.
Mason, Charlotte.Date: [1800?]- Books
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The lady's assistant for regulating and supplying her table, being a complete system of cookery, Containing One Hundred and Fifty select Bills of Fare, properly disposed for Family Dinners of Five Dishes, to Two Courses of Eleven and Fifteen; With Upwards Of Fifty Bills of Fare for Suppers, from Five Dishes to Nineteen, And Several Deserts: Including Likewise. The fullest and choicest Receipts of various Kinds, With Full Directions for preparing them in the most approved Manner, from which a continual Change may be made, as wanted, in the several Bills of Fare: Published from the manuscript collection of Mrs. Charlotte Mason, A Professed Housekeeper, who had upwards of Thirty Years Experience in Families of the first Fashion.
Mason, Charlotte.Date: M.DCC.LXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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Fashionable life; or, The history of Miss Louisa Fermor. A novel. By a Lady.
Lady.Date: M.DCC.LXXXI. [1781]- Pictures
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A man in fashionable dress is accompanied by a young lady. Coloured lithograph after J.V. Barret, ca 1860.
Barret, J. V.Date: 1860Reference: 35304i- Pictures
A grandfather ties a blind around his grandson so that he can play blind man's buff with some girls. Photogravure, 1905, after Fred Morgan.
Morgan, Fred, 1847 or 1856-1927.Date: Xmas 1905Reference: 673705iPart of: Weldon's ladies journal of dress, fashion, needlework, literature & art.- Pictures
St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: the courtyard, with several people. Coloured engraving, 1752.
Date: 12 March 1752Reference: 21700i- Books
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The modern Christian; or, practical sinner: exemplified, in the monstrous villanies of the age, and the great coolness and indifference of mankind towards their Creator, and the vast concern of salvation. The Farce of a Sick-Bed, and the Humours of the last Hours, in most Examples of Life. Punch and Port, the great Reliefs, in troubled Consciences. H-ll thought no hotter than a Town-Bagnio; and the D-l a sine well-bred Gentleman. Fasting, forgot in South Britain and Ireland. Our Roast-Beef, a weightier Incentive than our Religion, for Foreigners to visit us. Hypocrisy, a certain Sign of Insolvency. A Story of a 6 per cent. Lady, who pray'd her Friends and Acquaintances out of 30,000 l. principal Money. Marriage, a Separation for ever: The false Education of young Ladies the Cause of it. Christian Behaviour, much out of fashion: Quadrille and Ombre, obtain'd their Freedom of the City of London. All Men running mad and bewitched, and pursuing their own Destruction.
Date: M.DCC.XXXVIII. [1738]